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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.com). That's fine for me, and the only router feature I miss is being able to have separate 2.4Ghz vs. 5Ghz SSIDs (so I'm grudgingly switching to the new-fangled way of naming the two wireless networks the same),
I've upgraded the Orbi firmware to the latest available - V1.2.0.6. What's concerning is that my 2 Nest cameras (Dropcam Pros) have individually reported going offline today at 7:12am, 10:58am, 1:12pm. I didn't notice any internet outage myself today. Each time I receive the offline email I check and the camears are online again. I never received these before today while using my R8500 or older wireless routers, so it's not Nest/Dropcam.
I looked at the Orbi admin website Interrnet Port... Show Statistics and it shows WAN/LAN/WLAN up time for the entire day (i.e., no reset and up times > 14 hours). I also looked at Advanced... Administration... Logs during the offline times and other than spurious [DoS Attack: RST Scan] entries (that normally appear throughout the logs), nothing seems to indicate an outage.
Has anyone else notice camera outages? Thoughts on what this might be? I'm hoping that a firmware update will iron out these intermittent outages.
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).
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Hi~!
I have the Orbi currently, but thinking about switching to the X8. I have 1400 sq ft home, tri level. 15-20 devices connected
the x8 isnt going to cover that tri level house anywhere near what the orbi would , so depends on what you are after ? coverage or router performance
Even with the latest firmware (1.12.0.18 ) my connection still drops on my computer all the time! Anyone else experiencing this with the latest firmware?
- Firmware 1.12.0.18 connectivity on nest cam seems to be fixed with mu-mimo and beam forming enabled. Current I do not have a reliable way of measuring wifi speed.
Hope this helps.
