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Power Fails & ORBI
Not at all happy with the amount of work to regain internet after a power fail/bump. ORBI is very unfriendly, the router has no indications, and yet the satellites at least go purple/red’ish. I usual...
You might consider connecting your router and modem to a small UPS to avoid resets during a power loss. I'm fortunate to reside in an area with very reliable electrical service, but I have all of my networking equipment connected to UPSes just to avoid issues if there is a power blip or outage.
Are you able to log in to the router after the power blip, or do you have to power cycle it to get it to work again? The router should visually indicate if it has lost internet connectivity, so maybe there's some other issue going on between the modem and the router where it still thinks it's connected, but it's not.