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Orbi Router reset to factory defaults, lost my entire configuration!
I was experiencing some problems with slow wifi (speed test under QoS was showing accurate available speed 200+ down, 20+ up), Apple TV was getting highly variable speed as low as 5Mb up to maybe 30M...
The main reason I had not done this already is that you cannot rely on a configuration backup being usable after a firmware upgrade. This is one of the things that I (and many others) find so frustrating - pretty much all router makers don’t care about their users enough to solve this problem. It IS solvable - document when you change things, and save config backups in a format that can be edited by a user.
DougB628 wrote:
The main reason I had not done this already is that you cannot rely on a configuration backup being usable after a firmware upgrade.
That is true. But you lose nothing by having a backup and restoring your saved settings after an update.
More often than not, the retrieved settings will work fine. If they don't you have lost nothing. Simply reset the thing and reconfigure from scratch.