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Android 8 Crashes Orbi
I've been tracking down an issue where my Orbi just suddenly drops wifi and reboots. I've isolated it to be associated with an Android device running 8.0 or higher. And I've proven it turning off w...
This exact issue has been happening to me for the last two weeks when two of my Galaxy S7 Egdes got their December Security update. So its affecting Android 7.0 as well. As long as those two phones aren't connected to my WiFi everything is fine. I've also gotten a replacement router from Netgear, which also is affected by the rebooting. There is no reason any client device should crash a router like this.
lprzybylski EXACTLY!! That's the most baffling part of the whole thing to me. How in the WORLD a client device is causing a router to reboot is well beyond me!