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Orbi RBK50 - Speed issues, Wemo compatibility issues, etc
I replaced an ageing Airport Extreme set up that alos included a Time Capsule set as a wifi extender along with an Airport Express as an extender. The speeds were never blazing fast, but it was reli...
Regarding Wemo, I was able to set up Wemo to connect to my new Orbi wifi. But occasionally they'd just lose connection and I have to wait 15-20 minutes for them to re-connect. I followed the following advice from another discussion here:
"Changed the default IP on Orbi from 192.168.1.xxx to 192.168.0.xxx and all switches, including reprogrammed ones starting working immediately."
I made this change, and no more Wemo problems. After making the change I had to unplug every Sonos device to restart them before they'd show up in my Sonos app, but otherwise everything else connected fine post-change to 192.168.0.xxx.
I have only just sorted my issue today funnily enough & in the interest of fairness I think it only share what I have done.
I am fortunate to have a couple of Cat6 access points around the house so I removed the Orbi’s & replaced them with Airport Extremes.
I was still experiencing random speeds & occasionally a drop out or two but probably not as bad so I kind of lived with it for a bit.
Eventually the drop outs became more frequent so I set up a LAN monitor & connected a PC 24/7.
This revealed a disconnection from the internet every 2 hours, on average, for around 2 to 3 minutes at a time.
I replaced Ethernet cables & moved the ports the cables connected to, but still no luck.
I spoke to my ISP who insisted nothing was wrong and it must be third party devices attached so I persevered again. Eventually I threatened to leave & was finally offered a new modem.
On Friday I connected the new modem & configured. I set up the Lan monitoring & waited with baited breath. By Sunday morning I had no drop outs.
Next it was random speeds I was after. I’d noticed my iPad connected to one access point pulling super fast speeds but my iPhone, connected to the same access point, was not.
Looking in the airport utility I could see my iPad was on A/N/AC but my iPhone was on B/G/N. A bit of googling revealed a few people having issues with Iphone x’s Wi-fi speed so I forced to connect it to A/N/AC by creating a dedicated 5GHZ band.
This has fixed my issue.
I can’t solely blame the Orbi’s as I obviously had other issues but as you cannot separate the 2.4 & 5 GHZ I think my problem would still be here.
As for Wemo. They just work with the Airport Extremes.
I am fortunate to have a couple of Cat6 access points around the house so I removed the Orbi’s & replaced them with Airport Extremes.
I was still experiencing random speeds & occasionally a drop out or two but probably not as bad so I kind of lived with it for a bit.
Eventually the drop outs became more frequent so I set up a LAN monitor & connected a PC 24/7.
This revealed a disconnection from the internet every 2 hours, on average, for around 2 to 3 minutes at a time.
I replaced Ethernet cables & moved the ports the cables connected to, but still no luck.
I spoke to my ISP who insisted nothing was wrong and it must be third party devices attached so I persevered again. Eventually I threatened to leave & was finally offered a new modem.
On Friday I connected the new modem & configured. I set up the Lan monitoring & waited with baited breath. By Sunday morning I had no drop outs.
Next it was random speeds I was after. I’d noticed my iPad connected to one access point pulling super fast speeds but my iPhone, connected to the same access point, was not.
Looking in the airport utility I could see my iPad was on A/N/AC but my iPhone was on B/G/N. A bit of googling revealed a few people having issues with Iphone x’s Wi-fi speed so I forced to connect it to A/N/AC by creating a dedicated 5GHZ band.
This has fixed my issue.
I can’t solely blame the Orbi’s as I obviously had other issues but as you cannot separate the 2.4 & 5 GHZ I think my problem would still be here.
As for Wemo. They just work with the Airport Extremes.