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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...
Solid five days of connectivity while out of the country as evidenced by uninterrupted Nest cam streams. When my Pixel 2 XL on 8.1 connected to my Orbi system upon return, the router reboots started again. Toggling mobile data off when on wifi seems to resolve the problem. A rooted phone and Tasker might be a temporary solution until Google and Netgear push out a fix.
richjklee wrote:
Solid five days of connectivity while out of the country as evidenced by uninterrupted Nest cam streams. When my Pixel 2 XL on 8.1 connected to my Orbi system upon return, the router reboots started again. Toggling mobile data off when on wifi seems to resolve the problem. A rooted phone and Tasker might be a temporary solution until Google and Netgear push out a fix.
I can't find the link at the moment, but arlier today I stumbled accross a post in another forum about a Pixel device that was having problems wtih WiFI, but *only* when 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz networks were using the same SSID, and it made me wonder if this is somehow related. I would be curious to know if setting separate names for the differerent networks on the Orbi would make any difference (I think there's another topic here that describes how to do that). I would try it myself... except I'm not able to replicate the crashing problem.