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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).
My nest cam's continue to disconnect. I had to deactive the beamforming. Argh. Where's the fix, Netgear?!
Deactiving implicit beamforming shouldn't have any effect on newer ac devices which are supported with explicit beamforming. It sucks that we have to use a work around but it doesn't look to be that impactful to performance. But I totally agree this should have worked out of the box.
While I have been mostly happy with Orbi I intend to make to clear in my Amazon product review that Orbi does have issues.
true but disabling implicit does effect the coverage and performance of those non ac devices that do support beamforming , disabling explicit makes no sense
Have you been able to measure the difference in implicit on/off? I wasn’t able to get any meaningful difference.
hi
i will have to dig out a few non AC client devices and do some distance testing with it on and off , but i can assure you there will be a substantial difference as you are basically taking the transmission back to wireless N standard coverage without beamforming and we know thats chalk and cheese when compared to current beamforming transmission coverage for both implicit and explicit clients
pete
