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Orbi - Device Battery Life
I've seen some old messages with users having similar issues, but I haven't found one yet with a fix for my issue. I've got several portable devices that are seeing severe battery drain, but only...
I would power OFF the RBS and disable Guest Network and test to see if you still notice battery drain. Possible that the wifi device is flipping back and forth between either the RBR or RBS signals when it shouldn't be. This would indicate a possible wifi device problem.
I don't have a solution to the problem, but I did notice the same thing happening with a couple of basic phones that run Android when I installed my Orbi system this summer. They had no battery drain issues on my previous setup, which was not a mesh system.
FURRYe38 - I had also been wondering if the phones were flipping back and forth between the satellite and router every few minutes. Your suggestion would be a good way to test this.
pdeethardt - That was pretty much my experience as well. No issue on my old router (Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH running DD-WRT, which is not a mesh system).
Thanks for the help everyone. I've got a Cannon printer that I suspect may be the issue. It looks like it's got Bonjour enabled, which appears to be some kind of multicast that may be sending out a signal to everything on the network periodically.
So I've got some things to try - it may be a setting on that printer. It may be a problem with multicast on some other device. It may be the phones switching which wifi unit to connect to. Or it could be something else entirely. I'll just have to pick one, test it for a few hours, and try again if needed. I guess time will tell.
Try running the RBR alone with out the RBS online and see. Let us know if you notice any differences.
I know you may not have any Apple phones, hoever there is known batter problems on recent iOS 14 versions.