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Apprentice

Jun 23, 2020

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Orbi system - Faulty LAN / switching design - Will NG ever fix it?

Issue - Orbi system with 2 satellites (R1, S1, S2) will randomly drop LAN communication between segments. e.g. devices connected to S1 (both wired/wireless) won't be able to ping devices on S2 (or ...

superczar
Sep 05, 2020
MS , FURRYe38
It's been more than a week since i loaded Voxel and the system hasnt needed a restart.
I will take that as a win!
:smileyhappy:

Mstrbig

Master

Aug 26, 2020

superczar wrote:

In any case, today's discussion triggered me to switch over to the Voxel CFW.
It's running stable although still too early to comment (Been just a few hours)
I doubt that this will be any worse than default though.

Let me know how the Voxel firmware works out. Sometimes 3rd party firmware offers better and faster support and fixes over the actual manufacturer firmware. DD-WRT is that way. Every modem we installed that supported it, got the latest stable firmware becuse it was so much better.

I wish DD-WRT would come up with Orbi firmware, because their Netgear version firmware was great.

superczar

Apprentice

Sep 05, 2020

MS , FURRYe38

It's been more than a week since i loaded Voxel and the system hasnt needed a restart.

I will take that as a win!

:smileyhappy:

Mstrbig
Master
Sep 05, 2020
superczar wrote:
MS , FURRYe38
It's been more than a week since i loaded Voxel and the system hasnt needed a restart.
I will take that as a win!
:smileyhappy:
Great to hear. It's funny because many of the Netgear routers we install get changed over to DD-WRT firmware.
FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 05, 2020
Good to hear. Glad his FW is workin great for ya.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
superczar wrote:
It's been more than a week since i loaded Voxel and the system hasnt needed a restart.
I will take that as a win!
:smileyhappy: