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Oliverpool
Sep 19, 2017Guide
Continual internet/satellite/router disconnect
Has everyone given up on orbi? I have TWo rbk50 sets and they both give me disconnect issues. Slow connectivity and basically useless. Worse then my single router previously. They are in Totally diff...
aaz
Sep 20, 2017Virtuoso
Oliverpool wrote:
Has everyone given up on orbi? I have TWo rbk50 sets and they both give me disconnect issues. Slow connectivity and basically useless. Worse then my single router previously. ...
Frankly, it's a mystery to me why some people have so much trouble, and others find it much more stable. For me it has been rock solid except for one issue which I'll get to later.
I would recommend you upgrade to 2.0 firmware, reset to default settings and then change only the things you need to, don't turn off beamforming and other enhancements.
Also I would recommend turn off UPnP as that caused me some issues with one of my devices on the network causing dropouts to the internet for other devices. I don't know if 2.0 fixes this, but I don't care as I don't really need UPnP for now.
I've been running first on 1.12 and now for 2.0 for several weeks without a single drop. And I use some sensative applications that would notice a disconnect however brief.