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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).
I found a solution that seems to be working for me. First let me state that I'm not an engineer, so apologies if this is a rudimentary work around, but my Nest is stable now, so I'm happy and thought this might help a few people out there.
Before i bought my Orbi, I had a Asus RT-N66U Wireless Router. In order to reach my outdoor Nestcam at the end of our driveway, I had to put a Netgear AC750 wireless extender in my garage to extend the signal to my nestcam.
Once I installed the Orbi (with two satellites) - the internet speed within my house was terrific with the mesh network, but the range to the end of my driveway was still weak. So I linked my Netgear extender to my orbi and used that extender to connect my Nestcam again.
That's when I started to experience all the intermittent "drops" with my Nestcam (several a day). So I was reading this discussion board, and was about to try to turn off "beamforming" (whatever that is!) based on the posts, but then I saw that someone said the issue is with the 2G spectrum.
So I decided to try to extend just the 5G network using my Netgear extender. It was easy to do - just plugged in my extender to my computer, pulled up the Netgear setup site, and turned off the 2G network, so it was "only" extending the Orbi 5G network to my Nestcam. Also, unlike the Nestcam itself (or other devices in my house), the Netgear extender software actually differentiated the signal from the Orbi satellite vs. the Orbi main router - so I was able to extend the 5g signal from JUST the closest Orbi satellite (so no problem with the extender now trying to hop back and forth between the Orbi router and Orbi satellite signal).
Anyway, first full day now without a drop. And didn't have to turn off beamforming (which I guess some people on this board said could degrade performance). I haven't noticed any interfernce in the Orbi and extender signals either.
So if you are just trying to solve a Nest cam specific problem, you might want to use an extender dedicated to just servicing the Nestcam and just extend the 5g signal from a specic Orbi device. if you don't have an extender, you can pretty easily reset your old wireless router to act as an extender (lots of videos on Youtube). Anway, again, not a technical guy - but just posting in case this is helpful to anyone else.