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Aspirant

Jan 19, 2018

Solved

My RBR50 keeps spontaneously rebooting

I have an RBR50 and two RBS50 satellites, purchased as a bundle through Costco. I noticed that the router would intermittently just reboot, dropping all devices. I thought it may be a firmware issue ...

Troubleshooting

Hydro130
Jan 19, 2018
If you have an Android phone and Chromecast devices, it may be related to that.

Info on the patch from Google is here:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Google-has-released-beta-fix-for-wifi-dropping-issues/m-p/1490130#M21756

Aspirant

Jan 19, 2018

I do, indeed, have Android AND Chromecast. Thanks for pointing that out! I'll try it!

Apprentice

Jan 22, 2018

TP-link, Linksys, and others have already gotten it fixed... How long for a Chromecast/Android fix Netgear?