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Orbi Logger: Hope this helps someone
TLDR; I built a log scraper for my Orbi system, node.js code here: https://github.com/Dustinmj/orbi-logger Hi, I've been visiting this forum a LOT recently as my Orbi (2 sattelite) system has bee...
Heya, I'm surprised I missed this earlier, but have my logger setup and running now...hopefully will find something to prevent the daily reboots!?
Currently have similar config with router+2 in mesh configuraion (distance consideration), and firmware 2.1.4.10
Any luck figuring out your issue?
I actually gave up and bought another system... Rhymes with scroogle.
That said, I did notice a common denominator before the reboots after logging, but never got around to figuring out why.
I'm hoping what I was seeing was the Android/Home packet flood wake bug but haven't gone back to Orbi since I took it offline, so ??
That said, I did notice a common denominator before the reboots after logging, but never got around to figuring out why.
I'm hoping what I was seeing was the Android/Home packet flood wake bug but haven't gone back to Orbi since I took it offline, so ??
Dang, ya, I actually was ready to swap over, but I stream HDR and UHD movies through Orbi (saved me from re-wiring), and when I tried Google it didn't keep up...that 5MHz backhaul system is impressive on Orbi!!
Anyway, I'll keep digging...nothing so far, and about 10 reboots.
Well, it appears the logger may have helped solve this issue!
I was noticing that reboots happened when devices would enter the wifi (i.e. arriving at home with 1 or more smartphones that joined), or something coming back online (i.e. computer).
Since the reboots have become more and more frequent over the last few months I started to think I may just be bumping into a traffic threshold and the orbi was simply timing out and rebooting to help solve the problem as it thought something else wasn't working.
Anyway, I'm on Comcast Business at 25Mbps (differs from Xfinity in that the 25Mbps is guarenteed, not just burstable), and found a tech to bump me to 100Mbps for a month to test...and it's been working for 10 days without a single issue!!
I have about 53 wifi devices consistently on my network (smart home, computers, smart phones, google home mini, rpi, open sprinkler, etc..), an orbi router rbr50k, and 2 satellites with devices that work on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz.
I was affected by the Google Home Mini + Pixel packet flood issue, and recent reboots behaved similar, but everything including the Mini have worked without a problem for 10 days, so gonna call it solved for me!! No more testing different MTU's, woohoo!