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Orbi and Ring products issues
I recently switched from one router + repeater to the Orbi system. No installation problem. When I first connected my Ring Doorbell and 2 Ring Spotlight cameras, no connection issues. One camera ...
I haven't had any issues with 3 cameras, 2 NEST controllers and the rest of my network. I disabled the following on the Orbi router:
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- I don’t think the orbis are too close. When setting them up I had to bring a bit closer together to get the backhaul operational.
What I really did was create another network using another vendor’s kit and it’s been rock solid for 9 hours. Whether this is on Netgear or Ring we’ll probably never know for sure. But if this holds its totally acceptable to me since it was basically free.
The orbi itself has been very solid for me otherwise. Indeed 4K and HD video stream all the time with almost zero issues. So could it be Ring still? Sure. It’s possible they are doing something out spec that Netgear doesn’t handle well and quite frankly out of spec is out of spec.
One more point....this appears to an issue with Netgear and Ring devices not just Orbi based on the googling I did on this issue.