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Network keeps dropping wifi and forcing me to restart
I am on the latest version v2.1.4.16
My network is setup like so
Fiber Modem --> Orbi Router --> Netgear Unmanaged Switch --> Rest of hard wired network machines
This was working perfectly fine up until about two days ago, and now I am constantly losing wifi connection and my whole network goes down.
I would wait for the network to come back up, but nothing would happen. I see via the LED indactors on my modem that the router is indeed communicating with the internet but beyond that it's not reissuing dns.
I don't know what causes it to basically crap the bed but it requires a hard restart to stabilize again.
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I would do this, disconnect ALL but one wired PC directly to the back of the router. Turn OFF any satellites as well.
Reboot the router. When it comes to ready, go in and set up an IP address reservation for your 1 wired PC. Add and Apply the change. Then turn on the satellite, 1 at a time. Do the same thing, set up a IP address reservation ON the router for the satellites. So this for each satellite you may have. Turn on the next wired device and do the same thing. Keep doing this until you have IP address reservations for your devices.
I saw this again on my system last nite. I rebooted my router and all of a sudden I could not get an IP address and my network went down. I disconnected the game console I was having problems with and the network came back. I found out that from some reason there was a IP address conflict after the reboot on the router and DHCP is not handling the IPs correctly. After another reboot and reconnect of the game console, it got an IP address then I went directly in and set up a IP address reservation.
Something in the DHCP server needs to be looked at. It's not handling Dynamic IP address conflict very well.
Going through as we speak and am assigning static ips to the wired devices.
Wish I could tell the orbi to assign any wireless stuff after `10.0.0.20` and all the wired components get the other 20.
I will report back to see if this solves the issue. I am sure you are right with network collision. I just don't understand why that would bring the entire network down, wifi included.
To clairify, Reservation IPs are set ON the router, this is what i'm suggesting here. Static IP addresses are IP address set ON a client device. The static IP address is also set out side of the default DHCP IP address pool.
I recommend this, changing the default IP address pool to somthing small, If your router is using 10.0.0.#, then set the beginning IP address range to 10.0.0.21 to say 10.0.0.50. This will give you a smaller pool to use for IP address Revervations. You can use static IP addresses on either side of this pool were needed. I set my pool for .100 to .200.
What is the Mfr and model# of you ISP modem/ONT?
I have two NEST thermostats on mine.
I run MIMO disabled.
You mgiht disable the wifi on the NESTs for a short time to see if this could be an issue...
I ended up returning the Orbi due to this issue. I could never resolve it and since I work from home this was a show stopper. Thanks for the help Furry.
Sorry it didn't work out. Good Luck in trying something differrent.
