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RBR50 drops internet at night
This is a NETGEAR FIRMWARE issue I have read many of the post on this issue. I have even gone so far as to replace my RBR50 with another and still has the problem. It is NOT my internet provider have...
In the six years I have had an RBR50 connected to Spectrum, it is never "dropped internet at night." Not once.
It would help to have a bit more information, such as:
- Which specific firmware is on this RBR50? V2.7.5.4 was released in February and at some point routers will announce that users should consider updating from v2.7.4.24 to this newest version.
- More description of "what happens":
- Every night? (some nights? only on Saturday night?)
- How long.? When does this "drop" begin and end?
- What is affected? Every device in the house? Only some applications?
- Does anything appear in the log file?
We had a mantra in tech support, "when someone calls and says there is a problem, there is always a problem." Our strategy was to determine exactly what was wrong, especially when the caller was confident that "the system is down." (Wish I had kept a count of how many times, "Is the monitor turned on?" got an embarrassed response. "oops".)
Every night now every day around noon
every device in the house
the orbi app on iPhone confirms there is zero internet i.e. RBR50 is offline
always confirmed by Okla speed test also
all RBS50 are still connected but offline
I've sat through enough failure analysis meeting in the semiconductor industry to know that anomalies occur. Such as say thin oxide which allows a punch through. There are enough complaints on the internet which indicate this problem does occur and more than likely is in the firmware. Believe your firmware has a thin oxide so to speak.
Would be helpful to have more detail about what is happening twice each day.
- Does the unit physically power itself off and has to be powered on again manually?
- Does the unit actually reboot?
- What shows in the Orbi log at these times?
- Does the service interruption coincide with the end of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) IP lease?
What is the Mfr and model# of the Internet Service Providers modem/ONT the NG router is connected too?
Be sure your using a good quality LAN cable between the modem and router. CAT6 is recommended.Would be interesting to see if Voxels FW does the same thing, if so, possible HW issue rather than FW.
Do you have any RBS? If you do, swap out the power supply of the RBS to the RBR and see if the problem continues or not.
John1776 wrote:
Every night now every day around noon
every device in the house
the orbi app on iPhone confirms there is zero internet i.e. RBR50 is offline
always confirmed by Okla speed test also
all RBS50 are still connected but offline
I've sat through enough failure analysis meeting in the semiconductor industry to know that anomalies occur. Such as say thin oxide which allows a punch through. There are enough complaints on the internet which indicate this problem does occur and more than likely is in the firmware. Believe your firmware has a thin oxide so to speak.
