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Orbi WiFi System performed a hard reset to factory defaults overnight
I got my orbit set up on Sunday. Everything was working well until Tuesday morning. When I woke up Tuesday morning my SSID had changed back to ORB20. Tried to logon with my password, didn't work. A...
Since, my original post I have not had the reset issue. If it happened 4-5 times since then I would swap it out. I am not a huge fan off the configuration options (parent control in particular) I have thought about using it as an AP and get a cheap ubiqui router as the head. Expensive AP solution though..
Thanks guys for the intel, I'll live with it for a bit and see if this continues to happen. As stated in my original post, after it reset automatically I couldn't get it to configure, it kept shutting down and rebooting. I ended up returning it as It seemed like a hardware issue. Arthurpolo, I'd try and get it swapped out. Hoping the replacement serves me well.