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Netgear Orbi connection loss?
Hi, my RBR40 Orbi keeps popping up with a magenta light randomly throughout the day. I have it bridged with another Netgear D6200 and works fine 99% of the time. Although I still get my full wir...
I have 4 orbi units (1 central router and 3 satellites) in my home - the 1.X firmware was so bad I took them all offline, and returned to multiple discrete access points. With 1.X pretty much half of my wifi devices had their connections dropped until I rebooted the four units. I tried putting a timer to turn them all off and on, and while that did improve things it did not fix the core issue and some of my wifi devices would not reconnect cleanly.
Then 2.X came out last week. The release notes did not really go in to the issues I had been experiencing, but I thought: "what the heck", and powered up the Orbi's, manually updated the firmware to 2.X - and THEY WORK NOW. I have had them running for several days with no interference from me; all attached wifi devices connect and stay connected, no drop outs, no need to reset the system at all.
Looks like Version 2 is the charm.
Good luck everyone!
Thanks! Fingers crossed it works!
One extra thing: I am using AP mode. I turned off all the features in the wireless section: no mu-mimo, no fast switching, etc (3 boxes you tick - or not - in the wireless setup). When I did have them turned on, the dropping problems persisted. All off: works.
- Firmware is now up to date. Magenta light still seem to appear but as soon as I open a Speedtest or the orbi app on my phone it seems to disappear