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Password continually needed
Orbi based network requires my password be entered on my phone 1-2 times each day. Pretty frustrating.
Password to what? Most devices these days "remember" the password to every WiFi network they have been connected to. If your phone is not remembering the WiFi password, something is wrong with the phone. (I have gone to visit relatives, and after six months away my phone logs in as soon as I walk in the door.)
If you are referring to the password to the Orbi administrative account, that's a different matter. I, personally, have not left the Orbi app open on my phone or tablet long enough to notice.
- Yes, I’m familiar with how these passwords are usually remembered. That’s why I’m asking. My phone will remember dozens of network passwords but not my Orbi one that was just installed a week ago. Thanks for responding though.
Mts362 wrote:
My phone will remember dozens of network passwords but not my Orbi one that was just installed a week ago.Have you been in to check the saved wifi passwords on your phone?
It may be remembering an old password. Tell the phone to forget that and it may remember the new one.
As CrimpOn says it is really down to the phone to handle things like that. The router just puffs out wifi. What things do with it is in their hands.
- Appreciate the effort, but there seems something unique about this network. My phone has never forgotten a password for dozens of networks over the years. And this network is 1 week old and a brand new setup. So it does appear specific to the Orbi network. Thanks
