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Installed Orbi and data usage quadrupled!
I purchased and installed an RBR50 AC5000 with a Satellite RBS50 on July 5. It worked great. I had much more coverage for our house/property and all our devices were able to connect from everywhere a...
Chuck_M wrote:
yata001 wrote:
The Orbi makes three types of requests from the router itself:
- makes a request to www.netgear.com every 5 minutes to check if the router has an internet connection.
- makes a request to updates1.netgear.com hour to check for new firmware updates.
- on the latest version, makes a request to nimbus.bitdefender.net every 1 minute. Netgear repackage bitdefender for the Armor security product but who knows why it needs to sent day every minute even when not enabled.
I get the first two... but the last one is unsat if true. If you have Armor disabled, why would they take it upon themselves to continue to ping bitdefender at all!?
Can this information be verified?
So I applied the latest firmware manually, which I guess then allowed the router to update on it's own to version V2.3.1.44 on its own. Yesterday I reset everything back to factory and set everything up again.
The usage didn't get any better and as mentioned before NG screwed with something cause the traffic meter no longer works with DST. I'm unable to see what usage is being recorded in the Orbi so I'm relying on Xfinity's usage over the month. I hit my limit of 1TB 2 days ago and since then I've used about 84 GB from Tuesday night at 11pm up until this afternoon (1pm). So far the overage will cost me about $20 since I went over my two free months of no extra charge.
My model of router is RBR50 and sat is RBS50 and I'm out of free tech support. I'm not sure what else to try at the moment, perhaps going back to each device as another person suggested and turn off any auto updates on gaming systems, computers, etc. I've had this router since June of last year and it's just strange that this data usage has steadily increased with no changes to the devices I'm using.
I should also mention I upgraded my modem to a new model - NETGEAR CM1000. Not sure how big a part this played in lowering my data usage.
That modem should be of no impact since it has no routing functions. As long as you have registered it with your ISP, any wierd stuff going on would be from Orbi or a connected to Orbi device.
I am still concerned about the unverified report that Orbi talks to the Armor server even if you dont have Armor enabled.
Would need a wireshark capture to see whats really happening...
Chuck_M wrote:
That modem should be of no impact since it has no routing functions. As long as you have registered it with your ISP, any wierd stuff going on would be from Orbi or a connected to Orbi device.
I am still concerned about the unverified report that Orbi talks to the Armor server even if you dont have Armor enabled.
