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ORBI Loses Internet Connection and CANNOT RENEW WAN IP RBR50/RBS50 2.3.5.30
ORBI Loses Internet Connection and CANNOT RENEW WAN IP RBR50/RBS50 2.3.5.30 I am a network engineer. This is a piece of junk firmware. Netgear can you get your SH!T together!!!!! Repeatedly...
I have xfinity and ran into a similar problem. After assigning the Orbi a reserved/static IP LAN address, I didn't have to reboot due to IP renewal problem anymore. With a static IP, Orbi will disable its internal DHCP automatically and therefore avoid the need to renew IP address via DHCP. This has worked very well for me.
If you have xFi router from Comcast, you can put Orbi in AP mode and give it static IP/GW/DNS address. At least you don't have to worry about WAN DHCP IP address renewal with ISP modem/router and DHCP/WAN IP address renewal is no longer an Orbi's problem. Here is an example of my curent Orbi AP configs:
- this is a great alternative for people looking to keep their Netgear equipment. There were so many other problems with daisychaining, etc. that I wouldn’t keep the setup but if there aren't other issues and the WAN IP issue is the only one, this would work !
ElMotor wrote:
this is a great alternative for people looking to keep their Netgear equipment. There were so many other problems with daisychaining, etc. that I wouldn’t keep the setup but if there aren't other issues and the WAN IP issue is the only one, this would work !Yeah - I'd do the same as well if there's a better mesh hardware than Orbi RBK53, i.e., backhaul bandwidth. If I could easily run a cable in my house, I'd switch to Google WiFi in heartbeat. Until another vendor can provide gigabit wireless backhaul, I just need to find new crazy way to solve old router problems that have already been solved years ago.
For example, who would have thought something as basic as DHCP client/server would still be a problem facing router today?