RBK50. cannot connect to wifi/internet for mobile devices after power outage. Laptops are ok

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Andrianp wrote:

After a brief power outage, all mobile devices (all android based) in my network will fail to connect to wifi (wifi will have no internet). While macbook and attached computers can connect.

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It might be useful to clarify something: i.e. Do the android devices not connect to the Orbi WiFi at all, or do they connect to the WiFi but have no internet access?  The way to check this is to look at the Orbi "Attached Devices" page and also to check the WiFi status on the android devices.

Is everything that does work "wired" to the Orbi (MacBook, computers), or are some of these devices also using WiFi?  i.e. when there is a power outage, none of the android devices "lose power" (because they use battery power), but everything else (modem, Orbi, MacBook, computers) does lose power?

You certainly do not want to investigate this problem by "throwing the main breaker" on the house, which would lead to wholesale disruption.  It might come close if you could disrupt power to the modem and Orbi.  (For example, if they are on the same plug strip.)

Having the Orbi fixed to one channel probably helps reduce the number of possibilities.