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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...
Adding a device doesn't disconnect the others (directly); rather, the Pixel is doing something that causes a kernel panic on the Orib, which causes it to reboot, which then disconnects all of the other devices.
To my knowledge, nobody has identified what the root cause is yet, so there is no real fix available.
I can't figure out which is more absurd. The fact that Netgear hasn't even aknowledged the issue or the fact that they have a router that allows itself to be crashed by a client device.