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piece of crap?
On my third complete install trying to get this system working. The app on my phone has taken away all my wifi options and now won't even let me turn the phone off. Taking the battery out of the ph...
We've had it a year and it is very unreliable. The WiFi network is more stable than the first six months (It doesn't crash and reboot 25x a day), but the admin app is horrid.
Just today we paused our son's computer from the app. Then turned it back on...it wouldn't work continued to block internet to the computer. Then it rebooted...still had computer blocked.
Finally, went to the desktop and was able to see the computer still blocked and turned it back on.
So, a simple toggle turned into rebooting the network three times.
my PC is three rooms away from the orbi. Plus i was told that the App was the preferred method
bjcilley wrote:
my PC is three rooms away from the orbi. Plus i was told that the App was the preferred method
I'd recommend configuring Orbi using the web GUI rather than the app. The address is usually http://192.168.1.1 or http://10.0.0.1 or you can use orbilogin.net.
If you cannot wire your PC to the router, you can configure over WiFi.