OrbiOS 2.1.1

I bought the router and satellites last week and after a day of reboots I found this post and upgraded the satellites (RBS50+RBS40) and router (RBR50) to V2.1.2.10 Friday night.

Through the weekend and this week I had continued having reboots, in my case, I can pinpoint* most if not all the reboots to "roaming" between devices, specifically with Android devices at least with 6.x and 7.x

I am the only Android user at my home, everybody else uses iOS, with time stamps I can tell that the router/satellites disconnect when I move from one area to another. Others had pointed out that the issue might be with 7.x (and 8.x), so I turned off my new phone and started using an old Note 4 with 6.0.1 with same results.

On top I had to keep my old router because port forwarding does not fully work  for my configuration, and I did not have the time to troubleshoot the issue; so I  decided to keep my router Linksys WRT1200AC running OpenWRT and configure the Orbi as AP.

People at home it is not happy. 

I will activate a different SSID on the WRT1200AC with my Android device as the only client, and post a follow-up in a couple of days.

*I configure a Raspberry Pi 3 to monitor the WiFi (scanning my SSIDs, pinging the router and satellites, the internet and some wireless devices that are always connected at home -chromecast, thermostat, wemo switches- ) and every time I move from one area to the other at least one of the set (router/satellites) stop responding the pings, and the broadcasted SSID disappears for a few minutes interrupting in some cases the Internet access.

My system has been stable on 2.1.1.6 for 19 days.

I have daisy-chain typology, fast roaming, MU-MIMO and Beamforming all on and running well.

Not saying others aren't having issues, but my system is working very well.

Revisited Orbi (too unstable so sidelined for the last couple of weeks) with the release of 2.1.2.10. For 11 hours it was stable but then started having reboots or loss of internet. Sometimes it would be up for hours, sometimes failing multiple times one after the other. 

I have a mixed house with apple and android phones and tablets, none are running android 8 and all are mainstream Sumsung or Motorola hardware. Just sidelined it again until an android workaround comes through. Luckily I have a D7800 that is more stable  otherwise it would have gone back to the store long ago. Not sure why I'm percervering now.

Since I am masochistic, I put my Orbi back online yesterday . Loaded the 2.1.2 beta firmware on the Orbi router and both satellites. Turned off Wifi on my R7000 router, and put Orbi in AP mode.

Got an Orbi reboot within 30 minutes while watching a video on my Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet. When that happened, the SSID disappeared completely in the tablet's Wifi settings. I was stationary having dinner when it happened - no roaming.

Later in the night, I decided to run the Orbi in AP mode on a separate SSID named ORBISUCKS, and reconfigured 4 Wifi devices to use the new SSID :

- 2 Wemo power switches

- Emotorwerks Juicebox electric car charger

- Emotorwerks/Aerovironment electric car charger

Those are all stationary plug-in devices, so there is no roaming involved whatsoever.

None of these 4 devices are running Android.

Wemo runs on DD-WRT and the Emotorwerks devices run on the Zentri platform.

Nonetheless, I just checked the logs on my Orbi, and it rebooted itself at 4:50 am, about an hour after I went to sleep.

So, I can categorically say that the reboots on my Orbi at least happen even without any Android device.

I am keeping all my other Wifi devices (2 smartphones, 1 tablet, 3 laptops) on the R7000 Wifi for now. R7000 has not spontaneously rebooted. I have about 40 more devices, but the vast majority are plug-in, not Wifi.

when 2.1.1 beta did not provide any greater stability to .16 I went back to .74. It was reasonably more stable though not as stable as when I originally purchased my Orbi. Anyhow, over the past few days it's like .74 grows more and more unstable where I now get "Connected, No Internet" on my Android devices and the Orbi ring is glowing.

This is a new issue with no change in environment. I'm well past the return period. I was VERY satisfied when I initailly bought this. @darrenm Do the powers that be know folks are ditching the product? We're a vocal group here. I'm sure regualr users who just want a PnP experience have returned their's or told friends not to get it.

For what it's worth I have a Pixel XL on the December/January 8.1 patches for the last 36 days and no drops on 2.0.0.74. It will occasionally slow to a crawl but I do think that's my ISP.

After uploading the beta firmware 2.1.210, the connection drops seems to have stopped. I uploaded to the satellite first as instructed, then to the main one and everythings is working fine for now. I will continue to monitor as see if it stays stable. 

Blocked auto updates with Telnet. The only strange issue I'm having with 1.x.20 that I was having with .74 is sometimes my devices connect and it says "Connected. no internet"

**Edit: Nevermind, working now.

Have been trying to get the link to work (multiple machines, mutliple browsers...  no joy), then I post this, and suddenly it works.  :S

WAS:

Is anyone else having issues downloading the 2.1.2.10 beta firmware for the rbs50 (sats)?
The link isn't working... (?).

Could someone please advise if there's an updated version or link (?).

Which system has similar power to Orbi? I'm almost ready to jump ship. I did a full power cycle this morning incl. Modem and switch, router and satellite full reset. Hopefully that cures the "Connected, no internet" problem which occurs if I turn off wifi then turn it back on for a PC and 2 Android devices. 

I need something to cover a 2 story home. 2800 sq ft. A couple dead zones around corners which orbi did great. 2 TV's with Netflix, Amazon etc plus occasional Skype or WebEx.