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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 can confirm that ,after disabling the implicit beamforming option, my nestcams are working perfectly. I'm waiting for a Velop but I'll probably return it as soon as it arrives.
I tried a Linksys EA9500 with 2 RE7000 and the performance was not good, although the cameras worked flawlessly (no disconnection whatsoever). The backhaul channel between the satellites is a big plus. Same placement as the RE7000 and the speed tests give me 125 Mbps, while the RE7000s go no further than 50 (on the 5ghz band).
I have 10 nestcams and 6 arlo, and they eat a sizeable amount of bandwidth during the day, so I might add another cable modem connection for the cameras and the security system alone, and leave the other one just for the computers.
I hope this might help someone. I noticed that I see nomore disconnects with Apple devices and my cameras work well too on WiFi if the 2.4 GHz band limits to 20 MHz bandwidth. If the bandwidth changes to 40MHz, some issues develop. Then I remembered that Apple's Airport routers only does 20 MHz bandwidth on 2.4 GHz, if I am not mistaken. It seems that the transition between 2.4 and 5GHz just happens smoother too. Is there any way to limit the 2.4 GHz band to 20 MHz on the Orbi?