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Orbi RBR50 - instability issues
My kids have been complaining about our wifi for 2 years. Now that I'm working from home I'm feeling their pain. I've rebooted my router probably a dozen times in the last week. Purchased Octob...
Thanks for the quick insight. Appreciate the guidance.
Any Wifi Neighbors near by? If so, how many? I do have a few wifi neighbors, depending on where you are in the house you can see about a half dozen signals, most of them are pretty weak.
I setup these settings after the factory reset. Hopefully it goes smooth.
New config:
2.4 Ghz Channel - 6
5 Ghz Channel - 48
Beamforming - enabled
MIMO - enabled
WMM - enabled
Armor - disabled
Circle - disabled
Daisychain - disabled
Fast Roaming - disabled
IPv6 - disabled
20/40 mhz coexistence - disabled
Short preable - enabled
Late last year Netgear released v2.5.0.x firmware, which had major issues. It also appears to have messed up the flash memory for some configuration items such that rolling back to v2.3.x releases or forward to v2.5.1.8 caused random issues. If your router ever had the v2.5.0.x firmware, then the only way to clear its corruption of the flash memory is to perform a factory reset.
I suggest taking screenshots or printouts of each of your configuration pages that you customized, that way you can manually reconfigure the router again to the same configuration after the factory reset.
Good Luck.
Appreciate the insights. I'll try the factroy reset tomorrow.
Is there a place I can look for best practices on manually configuring the Orbi? I have been running a pretty vanilla configuration and I figure this will be a good time evaluate better options.