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I thought I was one of the lucky ones ...
I've stated before that I must be one of the lucky ones because I don't seem to be having all the problems that many others have been experiencing. However, after some detective work during the past ...
The modem is an Arris TG1672G. I currently have Mimo an beamforming turned on but daisychaining turned off. I think, but I can't be sure, that I got better results with mimo and beamforming on. I'm pretty sure I got better results with daisychaining off. The physical configuration of my satellites is such that they are in a star with respect to the router and so my results seemed to make sense to me. There are a lots of neighboring WIFI's, and I had to play with the channel selection to get the best results. Fortunately, no one else seems to play with their channel locations.
i've read about the recommendations about double NAT'ing, but I have no requirements for port forwarding or VPN and so I didn't see how it would hurt. In fact, it seems like another level of firewall protection. I can be talked out of it though.
Mayhugh1 A few notes on your post.
Re: Double NAT'ing
The folks who indicate that double NAT'ing could be causing your performance degregation are almost certainly wrong and just making noise. While it's logically unnecessary to have an extra layer of NAT, there shouldn't be any measurable overhead using a NAT layer on most systems in the last 10 years at 25K-50K connections (active use across 20-30 devices). Also, if NAT was the issue, you'd see it everywhere - not just from a sattelite. You can safely ignore that as a factor.
Re: The disconnects
That is almost certainly a layer 2 issue with their WDS system, not your ISP. You'd need a device in between your modem and your Orbis performing monitoring to confirm it, but I wouldn't bother (though, at one point I did, when expeiencing simiiar issues). Due the transient and difficult to reproduce nature of the Orbi's bugs, you may have just bumped into it over the past few months. I recently posted instructions for how you can reproduce the issue to confirm your experiencing it.
Re: Inconsistent speed
Again, the backhaul. This is another symptom of the backhaul issue. I know repeating this doesn't help you, but I hope it saves you the time from trying to "make it work". There is no end-user way to address this, as naerok mentioned.
Just for completeness, I'll respond to your interference comment. Interference is extremely unlikely, especially since rebooting the router temporarly resolves the issue.
If you want to confirm that (again, I wouldn't bother), perform a wireless packet capture (Airtool on Mac's makes it easy), and look for how many RTS/CTS backoffs are happening. Odds are, you don't see more than the standard amount, which accounts for microseconds of latency.