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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've been following this thread for a few months now since I too have the issue of the NEST outdoor cam dropping/going offline when Implicit Beamforming is enabled. When I installed my NEST cam, it would go offline at least once every hour. i found this thread, disabled beamforming, and the NEST cam does not go offline at all. I've tried to re-enable beamforming after each Orbi firmware release, and I'm also on 1.9.1.12 and my NEST cam is perfect with beamforming disabled. As soon as I re-enable beamforming, back offline. Crazy... Not sure how beamforming causes the NEST cam to go offline, but I've tried everyhting else, including suggestions given by folks in this thread, and that is the only thing that causes my NEST drops. Hopefully NETGEAR can give us an idea on what the root cause is.