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Losing satellites repeatedly
I have an Orbi AC3000 with 2 satellites (RBR50 + 2 x RBS50) for about a month. I'm running in AP mode. I have had one or both of my satellites go away completely over time. They would not come b...
What "fixed" it for me with the previous firmware (1.12.0.18) was to change the main SSID and passwords to dummy ones, and set my regular SSID and password in the "guest" network. Apparently there was an issue for passwords containing spaces.
I'm running the latest firmware now (2.0.0.72) and have just reverted that workaround and disabled the guest network. I hope it will be stable. No issues so far.
My issue turned out to be the same thing. I had spaces in my passphrase. Removing the spaces worked.
I never removed the spaces, I just moved the SSID & password to guest network, since I didn't want to reconfigure all my Wifi devices.
With the new firmware, I put it all back on the main network and disabled guest network. All running fine, but it's less than 48 hours.