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Intermittent internet connectivity outage with Orbi?
I just installed my new Orbi router yesterday, replacing a Nighthawk R8500. I believe that overall wireless coverage has improved, though top-end performance is not quite as high (measured via fast....
I read in the other "Ring Door Bell" thread that a customer had better results after disabling "Enable Implicit BEAMFORMING". So I tried that just to see what happens. It's probably too early to tell yet, but my 2 Nest cameras have only disconnected once in the past 2 days and I think that's because there was a power outage at my house today (I wasn't home and both cameras went out at the same time, something the intermittent outages haven't done).
Try this to see if it stops your intermittent disconnects: In Advanced / Advanced Setup / Wireless Settings / Uncheck "Enable Implicit BEAMFORMING"
This is a possible workaround for the current issue. I'm not saying it makes sense or that this is still not a bug, but until we get a firmware fix this is working for me and my 2 Nest cameras. They have not reported a disconnect in the past week after making this change.
I'm having the same issues with my NestCam. Though all my apple devices seem to be working at full speed.
What are the preformance impacts of disabling implicit beamforming?
Skrymir wrote:What are the preformance impacts of disabling implicit beamforming?
disabling implicit beamforming will effect coverage to non wireless AC client adapter sor clients that dont have explicit beamforming
thus basically taking those adapters back to the days of wireless N coverage for those adapters , for those that can remember that far back there was no way to get decent coverage at any distance or through a few walls
with multiple access points this may not be an issue if the ap's are close together and within the confines of the main router , the issue would arise when you are on the other side of the sat and further out that will suffer coverage wise
thats as technical as i can get but it obviously would have some impact on non AC client adapters
pete
