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Orbi Setup
How do you set the date and time on the Orbi WiFi Router? Seems that there should be a setting to get the date and time from the internet. I've seen the time zone setting on the 'Schedule' tab. ...
Review the Orbi logs. If NTP is wokring you should see something like:
[Time synchronized with NTP server] Thursday, August 24, 2017 16:25:40
Make sure the Orbi device has valid settings for the gateway and domain name servers.
If you are behind the FIOS router you should run Orbi in AP mode, or bridge the FIOS router. This shouldn't affect NTP though, unless Orbi's network settings are misconfigured.
The time is set automatically, once per day, using Network Time Protocol (NTP). So, you do not need to do anything to have Orbi set its clock from the Internet.
- Thanks so much, however the date and time on my router are wrong. So I figured the NTP wasn't set correctly. Just can't find it.
If you view the Orbi log file, you should see log entries when the time is set via NTP. Unless you are somehow blocking ports, DNS, or Internet access it should update once per day.
If the minutes are right, but the hours are off, then NTP is working, but it might just be that the time displayed is based on UTC (a reference time zone.)
- Thanks I will review the logs. Date is wrong also, so I assumed that it was not getting any updates and had started with some artificial date/time
I will have to look at the fios router too to see if it is blocking NTP.
