Intermittent internet connectivity outage with Orbi?

I have the base router and satelite in a 2 storey house seperated by a brick wall. I chose Orbi because the marketing says you can get a strong signal even beyond a brick wall. I'm not sure if that is related but I have had very intermittent and poor connectivity with wifi all week, and I rely on wifi for work. 

I've since repositioned the satelite to a different location (as close to the wall of the first building as possible, and added back the extenders I had to the second building. The wifi is now acceptable, but I would like to get a stable and reliable connection so I can permanently put my wifi behind me. I feel spending $500 on these devices should not have already caused such concern.

If there is a setting, or any other suggestion someone can offer me to help resolve this issue I'd be more than pleased.

I bought an expensive and powerful wifi mesh system. I would like to have a powerful mesh wifi system that works.

Sincerely,

Chris King

I have been using the Netgear Orbi system for quite some time, and I absolutely love it.  I was using a Linksys EA9500, and Linksys even sent me a Velop 3pk to try out to review, and I came back to the Orbi.  The Orbi is simply the best whole home solution for fast, strong connections I've ever used. I have the two Orbi setup in my 4K sq ft home, one router and one satelite.  I had been using a Ring Stick up Cam outside my front door and connectivity was never an issue with the Orbi, the issues I had with that camera were on the Ring side.  I purchased the NEST outdoor cam and installed it yesterday, and while I love it much more than the Ring, I also noticed that the NEST cam would go offline about 4-5 times during the day.  The camera is only about 15 feet line of sight away from the base router, outside above my front door, separated by drywall and some exteriror wood trim.  I contacted NEST support and talked through it with them, even told them I use an Orbit system, and their only solution was to send me a new camera.  I was doing some research online today and found this forum.  I read through most of the posts, and I found that after I too disabled Beamforming on the Orbi, my NEST cam has not gone offline once since.  So short term work around successfull.  I also see that NetGear is aware of this issue, so i'll continue to monitor this forum for any future solutions in the firmware.

Wow, still no fix?!! I was getting ready to order the orbi until I read about the issues with nest cam. Any eta on a fix? Otherwise its google wifi for me.

I'm having this same issue with or without beamforming on my Orbi with two satellites. Happens to my Dropcam Pro camera, and Nest Protect fire alarm (but perhaps other connected devices such as Hue lights and Wemo switches). This is unaccpetable. Just bought the router, and was enjoying it before seeing these issues, and may need to return.

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.