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Bye Orbi
Had the rbr50 set with router and one satellite. Never did like it and it just went out. Had extended warranty and instead of getting orbi went with eero pro, 2nd gen, 3 pro units. Virtually nothing t...
Good luck to those who are bailing. I'm pretty sure what you'll find that ALL router manufacturers deal with firmware missteps. Go check out some of the other forums.
My advice is IF your problem is FW related, try and revert back to an earlier FW, one that you know your system was working.
IF you do stay and get it back running, leave it alone and do NOT perform manual FW updates. NG will only auto push FW that contains major updates.
IF your problem is hardware related, that's probably a warranty case.
"My advice is IF your problem is FW related, try and revert back to an earlier FW,"
I did that for a while but it's not a good long term solution because we miss out on critical security updates. Even feature updates.
It's been months and months since firmware updates started ruining many Orbi owners experiences. If they haven't fixed it yet it's because they eithier don't care or have hardware conflicts that cause some Orbi owners to be SOL.
Orbi used to "just work". It was fast and everything connected. Now it's slow(er) and drops connections.
I'm certainly happy for those Orbi owners who have no problems. I used to be one of them and actually recommended Orbi to many people. I just need my fast internet connection to work without having to become an amateur network engineer. Too many headaches these days with Orbi and it's time to cut bait.
RebelDad wrote:"My advice is IF your problem is FW related, try and revert back to an earlier FW,"
I did that for a while but it's not a good long term solution because we miss out on critical security updates. Even feature updates.
Critical security updates are still being pushed via auto-updates. The idea of reverting was to get you back to a working FW and then leave it alone. Some think that turning off auto updates all together is a solution. The question then becomes how will you tell which FW to apply to your system?
RebelDad wrote:Orbi used to "just work". It was fast and everything connected. Now it's slow(er) and drops connections.
Yeah - As new features being added in each/later iteration of firmware updates, those changes would also introduce new bugs along with the new features. Firmware becomes even more bloated with new risky codes. For examples, Micky Circle & BitDefender, both of which will impede/slow down traffics. Hopefully, firmware will mature before Orbi becomes EOL.
Exactly. I had to turn it off during free trial as it was causing speed to fluctuate badly.
Believe it or not eero is a little faster with theirs turned on. Adblock maybe? Dońt know.
Xsquid wrote:Exactly. I had to turn it off during free trial as it was causing speed to fluctuate badly.
Believe it or not eero is a little faster with theirs turned on. Adblock maybe? Dońt know.
Adblock will help speed things up in general because there's obviously less traffic to deal with or competing for the same limitted resouces and BW. For example, it would be faster to load N URLs than N+m URLs, where m is Ads/junk/spam/etc. It's also a reason that Chrome/Brave/Safar starts blocking the worst offenders/Ads automatically.
