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Aspirant

Oct 02, 2020

RBR20 Connection Issues

I have had an ORBI RBR20 and two sattelites for about a year and a half. At first, it was connected to a DSL wifi router / modem, but in the spring we upgraded to cable. Since that time, it has been ...

FURRYe38

Guru - Experienced User

Nov 02, 2020

Let us know how it goes...

alabama24 wrote:
To follow back up...
Things went well for about a month... then I started having troubles again.

Above I outlined what changes I previously made, but I verified each of these settings and they were as follows:

Enable Beamforming
Enable MU-MIMO.
Enable WMM
Disable 20/40Mhz Coexistence
Disable Fast roaming
Disable IPv6
Preamble mode is currently set to automatic.

One of the things which had been recommend earlier was to disable daisy-chain topology. I have now done so. Fingers crossed.

TURNED OFF DAISY CHAIN TOPOLOGY

alabama24

Aspirant

Nov 04, 2020

Unfortunately, we are back to square one. Any other ideas?

FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 04, 2020
What mode is your modem working in currently? Router or bridge?
- alabama24
  Aspirant
  Nov 04, 2020
  Bridge
  - FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Nov 04, 2020
    Can you put the modem back to router mode then configure AP mode on the RBR20?
    https://kb.netgear.com/31218/How-do-I-configure-my-Orbi-router-to-act-as-an-access-point and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LOcJ8GdDo&app=desktop
    
    Be sure you disable ALL wifi radios on the modem please.
    
    See if it still happens...