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Wow!!! Orbi Firmware V2.0.0.72 Released
Just logged into my router and it gave me the option to upgrade the firmware.
Have now Upgraded to V2.0.0.72
Haven’t had too much time to explore but early indications are WOW !!!
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@shoek wrote:I've been running it most the day now, and it seems more stable than the 1.12 version. I will reserve judgement until I have more experience with roaming devices.
Does anyone know if the setting for daisychain is "use it if Orbi thinks it needs it", or is it "use it no matter what"? In other words, I have my Router on the main floor center of house, Sat1 on Upper floor east end of house, and Sat2 in basement on west end of house. So, a star config is best for me I assume... so if the daisychain setting is on, will Orbi always try to arrange as Orbi-SatX-SatY? Or will it be smart about it?
How can you tell what the topology is? On the Attached Devices page, if it was doing daisychain, would the Connected Orbi of one of the satellites be another satellite? Mine are both showing the router, so I guess it is using star topology?
yep I think in the attached devices it would show one satellite connected to another. So looks like it is "smart" about deciding which way to go. Not sure why they have ? temporarily pulled the firmware down?
cyberprashant wrote:
@shoek wrote:I've been running it most the day now, and it seems more stable than the 1.12 version. I will reserve judgement until I have more experience with roaming devices.
Does anyone know if the setting for daisychain is "use it if Orbi thinks it needs it", or is it "use it no matter what"? In other words, I have my Router on the main floor center of house, Sat1 on Upper floor east end of house, and Sat2 in basement on west end of house. So, a star config is best for me I assume... so if the daisychain setting is on, will Orbi always try to arrange as Orbi-SatX-SatY? Or will it be smart about it?
How can you tell what the topology is? On the Attached Devices page, if it was doing daisychain, would the Connected Orbi of one of the satellites be another satellite? Mine are both showing the router, so I guess it is using star topology?
yep I think in the attached devices it would show one satellite connected to another. So looks like it is "smart" about deciding which way to go. Not sure why they have ? temporarily pulled the firmware down?
1) Is this (in red) confirmed?
Otherwise I will leave my 'Enable Daisy-Chain Topology' setting disabled since the "hub and spoke" (or star topology) - both satellites connected to the Orbi router, as opposed to the 2 satellites being connected to each other) is better in my case since the Orbi router is on the main level (1st floor) of our house and the satellites are in the basement and 2nd floor.
2) I wish there were a way to disable automatic firmware updates (the blocking of 'download.netgear.com' in the Orbi UI (nder 'Security' > 'Block Sites' as someone suggested) did not work. Version 2.0.0.72 downloaded by itself (not sure when):
Today, for the first time since getting my Orbi about a month ago, things were not working well (said connected to internet but web pages were ether taking forever to load or failing to load). I rebooted Orbi several times and then rebooted my cable modem.
After rebooting the cable modem (and then maybe the Orbi one more time), things instantly worked again.
I can only hope that firmware 2.0.0.72 was installed automatically today (I see this version is installed as per the Orbi's web admin UI) and caused this (hopefully one-time) connectivity issue.
Has anyone else experience this?
When did the v2.0.0.72 firmware install automatically for everyone else?
If worst comes to worst and I get disconnects again (if so maybe this is why Netgear suddenly pulled 2.0.0.72 from the downalods page??), then I will manually reinstall the previous firmware (1.12.0.18 which has been working great for a month).
Hoping this was a one-time issue though, fingers crossed.
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Orbi RBK53 AC3000 wifi system.
Firmware v2.0.0.72
njweb wrote:
cyberprashant wrote:
@shoek wrote:I've been running it most the day now, and it seems more stable than the 1.12 version. I will reserve judgement until I have more experience with roaming devices.
Does anyone know if the setting for daisychain is "use it if Orbi thinks it needs it", or is it "use it no matter what"? In other words, I have my Router on the main floor center of house, Sat1 on Upper floor east end of house, and Sat2 in basement on west end of house. So, a star config is best for me I assume... so if the daisychain setting is on, will Orbi always try to arrange as Orbi-SatX-SatY? Or will it be smart about it?
How can you tell what the topology is? On the Attached Devices page, if it was doing daisychain, would the Connected Orbi of one of the satellites be another satellite? Mine are both showing the router, so I guess it is using star topology?
yep I think in the attached devices it would show one satellite connected to another. So looks like it is "smart" about deciding which way to go. Not sure why they have ? temporarily pulled the firmware down?
1) Is this (in red) confirmed?
Otherwise I will leave my 'Enable Daisy-Chain Topology' setting disabled since the "hub and spoke" (or star topology) - both satellites connected to the Orbi router, as opposed to the 2 satellites being connected to each other) is better in my case since the Orbi router is on the main level (1st floor) of our house and the satellites are in the basement and 2nd floor.
2) I wish there were a way to disable automatic firmware updates (the blocking of 'download.netgear.com' in the Orbi UI (nder 'Security' > 'Block Sites' as someone suggested) did not work. Version 2.0.0.72 downloaded by itself (not sure when):
Today, for the first time since getting my Orbi about a month ago, things were not working well (said connected to internet but web pages were ether taking forever to load or failing to load). I rebooted Orbi several times and then rebooted my cable modem.
After rebooting the cable modem (and then maybe the Orbi one more time), things instantly worked again.
I can only hope that firmware 2.0.0.72 was installed automatically today (I see this version is installed as per the Orbi's web admin UI) and caused this (hopefully one-time) connectivity issue.
Has anyone else experience this?
When did the v2.0.0.72 firmware install automatically for everyone else?
If worst comes to worst and I get disconnects again (if so maybe this is why Netgear suddenly pulled 2.0.0.72 from the downalods page??), then I will manually reinstall the previous firmware (1.12.0.18 which has been working great for a month).
Hoping this was a one-time issue though, fingers crossed.
---------
Orbi RBK53 AC3000 wifi system.
Firmware v2.0.0.72
can't confirm since I'm in a star topology - someone needs to test this out.
cyberprashant wrote:
njweb wrote:
cyberprashant wrote:
@shoek wrote:I've been running it most the day now, and it seems more stable than the 1.12 version. I will reserve judgement until I have more experience with roaming devices.
Does anyone know if the setting for daisychain is "use it if Orbi thinks it needs it", or is it "use it no matter what"? In other words, I have my Router on the main floor center of house, Sat1 on Upper floor east end of house, and Sat2 in basement on west end of house. So, a star config is best for me I assume... so if the daisychain setting is on, will Orbi always try to arrange as Orbi-SatX-SatY? Or will it be smart about it?
How can you tell what the topology is? On the Attached Devices page, if it was doing daisychain, would the Connected Orbi of one of the satellites be another satellite? Mine are both showing the router, so I guess it is using star topology?
yep I think in the attached devices it would show one satellite connected to another. So looks like it is "smart" about deciding which way to go. Not sure why they have ? temporarily pulled the firmware down?
1) Is this (in red) confirmed?
Otherwise I will leave my 'Enable Daisy-Chain Topology' setting disabled since the "hub and spoke" (or star topology) - both satellites connected to the Orbi router, as opposed to the 2 satellites being connected to each other) is better in my case since the Orbi router is on the main level (1st floor) of our house and the satellites are in the basement and 2nd floor.
2) I wish there were a way to disable automatic firmware updates (the blocking of 'download.netgear.com' in the Orbi UI (nder 'Security' > 'Block Sites' as someone suggested) did not work. Version 2.0.0.72 downloaded by itself (not sure when):
Today, for the first time since getting my Orbi about a month ago, things were not working well (said connected to internet but web pages were ether taking forever to load or failing to load). I rebooted Orbi several times and then rebooted my cable modem.
After rebooting the cable modem (and then maybe the Orbi one more time), things instantly worked again.
I can only hope that firmware 2.0.0.72 was installed automatically today (I see this version is installed as per the Orbi's web admin UI) and caused this (hopefully one-time) connectivity issue.
Has anyone else experience this?
When did the v2.0.0.72 firmware install automatically for everyone else?
If worst comes to worst and I get disconnects again (if so maybe this is why Netgear suddenly pulled 2.0.0.72 from the downalods page??), then I will manually reinstall the previous firmware (1.12.0.18 which has been working great for a month).
Hoping this was a one-time issue though, fingers crossed.
---------
Orbi RBK53 AC3000 wifi system.
Firmware v2.0.0.72
can't confirm since I'm in a star topology - someone needs to test this out.
1. Thanks. I may experiment with enabling the daisy chaining (temporarily perhaps, depending on outcome) to see what happens with respect to the satellite connections (i.e. check what the UI shows as far as whether the 2 satellites connect to each other instead of to the router).
2. Now that I have 2.0.0.72, I have enabled all of the following features; does anyone know if any of the 3 are better left disabled?
Enable Implicit BEAMFORMING - Boosts WiFi speed, reliability, & range for all mobile devices
Enable MU-MIMO
Enable Fast Roaming
Netgear Support did state on the forum to experiment with Fast Roaming. They said it supposedly could, in some situations, potentially cause (frequent, albeit intentional) disconnects if two Orbi units are providing similar signal to the client (wireless device) and the Fast Roaming could flip back and forth when the RSSI the client is seeing for one Orbi improves versus the other Orbi.
Has anyone played around with Fast Roaming setting and determined the best setting?