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Orbi RBR-50 dropping internet connection to modem intermittently
Figured I'd post my positive results here on a thorny issue with my Orbi system. I have an RBR-50 with an RBR-30 satellite and one of the wall plugin satellites. So about 3 weeks ago or so, I updat...
Thanks for your troubleshooting input. Seems pretty odd to me that a firmware update specifically designed to address "Security Vulnerabilities" (v2.7.2.104) would require the user to turn off a DoS attack prevention mode. However, if your set up is working well, then this may be the answer for the group of folks struggling with loss of internet due to the v2.7.2.104 firmware.
tucsontico wrote:Thanks for your troubleshooting input. Seems pretty odd to me that a firmware update specifically designed to address "Security Vulnerabilities" (v2.7.2.104) would require the user to turn off a DoS attack prevention mode. However, if your set up is working well, then this may be the answer for the group of folks struggling with loss of internet due to the v2.7.2.104 firmware.
If you look at the release notes on most of the recent firmware versions, most mention "Security Vulnerabilities"....almost like they use that as a way to get most folks to believe its important...??
I actually didn't look at the release notes to see if this DoS feature was added with this new firmware I installed. I installed it because I was trying to resolve a different problem... in the newer version I read that they added enhancements to how devices would connect to the nearest Orbi node (router or satellite) and I was on some very old firmware.
This behavior of the internet dropping started to occur shortly after the firmware upgrade and that was the ONLY thing that changed in my environment so I figured it must be connected.
The DoS protection they have apparently is just ON or OFF and you can't set any thresholds on when it decides to turn internet off to protect you. I.e. X amount of data in X number of seconds, deactive internet. Nope, it just has some internally set threshold of data that flows in that it then deems a DoS even though it was legit traffic. So yep, just had to turn that feature off or keep facing internet drops.
