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Orbi satellite losing connection with router
I have had my Orbi mesh system for close to a year. For the past month or so, I have been experiencing random satellite drop connections. There is no indication from the affected satellite of its a...
V2.5.0.38 is your problem.
If you can, try to revert the firmware to an older version.
Thanks for the reply. I tried resetting both satellites as you outlined above: waited until power light flash amber and let go. The whole ordeal lasted much longer than I expected: it took a long time for satellites to boot and sync up. Heck, one of satellite was linking with other satellite until I sync'd it with router. Odd considering that I had daisy-chain disabled. But alas, all that effort is wasted. Within 30 mins, I am getting the random drops again.
Something is definitely wrong with either firmware and/or hardware of Orbi. Mine is v1 and the ones I bought for my parents are v2 and brand new. Yet they have the exact same issue as I do.
firmware?
Latest firmware on router and satellites: v2.5.0.38
V2.5.0.38 is your problem.
If you can, try to revert the firmware to an older version.
So the Indian tech was right, it is a firmware issue. But my parents' Orbi had older firmware and it was having the same issue as mine. Sadly, I updated them to the newest. Any suggestion as to which version of firmware to revert back to? And where to download?
