Recently (last month), the Guest WiFi randomly drops the Internet connection. The WiFi is there, but there is no connection to the Internet. After a while (several minutes), the Internet connection comes back. Sometimes it drops after a week, sometimes after a few days. There is no pattern to it. If I turn the Guest WiFi off, then on, the connection comes back.
I am wondering if this is related to the V2.7.2.104 upgrade as other posts seem to show similar problems. The strange thing is, that the drop is only for the Guest WiFi whereas the regular WiFi never drops.
This is rather annoying, as my wife works from home and her work laptop is connected to the Guest WiFi to keep things nicely separated.
The obvious: Unless the WiFi problems are trivial and only a minor irritation, put the wife's laptop on the primary Orbi network. If taking a bathroom break or getting some coffee fixes things, that's one thing. If WiFi drops in the middle of a Zoom session, that is much more serious.
I would not be concerned about the Port Scan and DoS protection. The check box refers only to the process of analyzing and logging connection attempts. Orbi router do not accept connections from the internet. I enjoy looking at the log entries, so I leave the feature enabled.
On the matter of firmware:
I don't want to put my wife's laptop on the primary Orbi WiFi, that's the whole point. :smileyhappy: I need and want to keep it separate. They install some apps that I don't necessarily trust (separate issue over which I don't have control), so I need to keep that device separate from the primary network.
It did happen a while ago (after the FW upgrade), and then again more frequently recently. I am not claiming that it is the fw upgrade, thus the question, but it does smell like it a bit especially when considering other posts with similar issues.
My ORBI config is very simple, so I am going to try and upgrade to the latest FW and if that doesn't fix the issue, I will do the factory reset.
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How'd the reset go? Any better?
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