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Orbi RBR40 Random Reboots at Night w/Streaming
My Orbi / RBR40 router only recently (within the last month) started rebooting itself periodically, and appears to do so only while streaming TV (mostly Apple TV, but once on Amazon Firestick) at nig...
Thanks, that is what I was looking for! I have a BR500 that lists all of that stuff on the first Admin GUI page, but couldn’t find it on the Orbi Admin GUI (see prior comment about Netgear making every Admin UI different both in terms of form and functionality).
But what I don’t see is temperature? Do you know if that is monitored and recorded anywhere? I used to have a FVS318G — great router when it worked! — that had horrible thermal issues after about a year of continuous use.
I’ll set up a curl + cron to pull this debug page periodically and write to disk, so that I can see if there is a particularly high CPU and/or low memory when the reboot occurs. Unfortunetly it is a bit of JS that runs to get this -- so can't simply scrape the page -- so I will have to reverse engineer the page (OMG! Just the page that displays the Orbi stats - not debugging anything else @ Netgear!).
You wrote:
> I see people post about their Orbi systems spontaneously rebooting and am bewildered.
> The only thing that should cause a reboot is a power failure.
I agree 100%, and am now worried that an Orbi spontaneously rebooting is not entirely unexpected … :-(
However, for 3+ years, I’ve had very good luck, so I’m hoping to find a solution, if not at least an explanation.
Gee … I have to remember if this started happening after I applied a recent firmware update???
I have not found a way to display CPU temperature on the Orbi. Sorry.