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ORBI Wifi Speed Drops
Hey Guys, So I have had my Orbi several months now. Every 3-4 weeks the wifi speed drops to below 30 mbs for download. However the speed test on the unit read 190 mps. The wired speeds also drop to e...
Happened again in the past few weeks. Had to factory reset both the router and the satellite today. Back to 350/30Mbps.
I assume something in the router isn't cleaning up after itself. Come on netgear, this should be an easy one.
Same here. They keep asking me for Wireshark logs and the like as if it's a networking problem, when likely it's a memory leak
It is definitely a memory leak or some kind of bad behavior over time of the Orbi. I don't have to touch anything but those two devices to make it start working again as it is supposed to. And it's ONLY wireless that is effected.
Seems like a memory dump from the equipment would make more sense than a log of network traffic to figure out what is going on, but what do I know. :-/
I'm going to try to narrow down how long it takes to fail by testing every day, but I can't swear I will rememeber. Part of the problem is 30Mbps is still pretty fast, and it can look like normal latent Internet slowness, so I don't always notice right away. I bet this is pretty consistent with these devices/firmware, but more people just aren't noticing it. I find it very hard to believe this is random to specific devices, like mine and the others on this thread.
- I've sent them memory dumps at all, they are just spinning their wheels. It's really frustrating, I wonder if the drivers for the wifi tech itself are the issue and nothing that they can do
It happened again this past weekend. So, it made it like 4 days. In fact, I had to factory reset 3-4 times. It had dropped DL speed to around 30Mbps, but it also stopped routing altogether a few times. :-(
And again.
I am **hoping** that maybe the factory reset after the recent upgrade to V2.1.2.18 could make this better moving forward... not high hopes, but still a guy can dream.