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RBR50 heavy battery drain on iPhone SE
Purchased RBR50 on 08 October 2018. Firmware V2.2.1.210
One Orbi Satellite-1
Six connected devices: Two iPhones running OS/12, a Windows 10 Desktop, a printer, a Roku, a sterio receiver TX-8170
MU-MIMO is disabled
Beamforming is disabled
Fast Roaming is disabled
Daisy Chain is enabled
The battery on my iPhones (an SE and a 7) drain visibly while I watch. In a matter of hours, it went from 60% to 10% battery.
Did not have this problem with the older wireless router.
I have two weeks to solve this before returning the device to BestBuy to get a competitor product.
I would appreciate any help.
Good to hear. Mark this thread as solved so others will know when needed.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
JTrtt wrote:
I promised to update after a few days of testing. After doing the following, the battery drain on my iPhone SE has improved so that it is only consuming 10%-20% per day which is very much better than I had before. I am encouraged. Thank you FURRYe38 and pdang for the help!
Here is what I did:
On the Orbi RBR50
- Enabled MU-MIMO
- Enabled Beamforming
- Enabled Fast Roaming
- Enabled Daisy Chain
On the iPhone SE
- Disabled Screen Time (a huge improvement; see https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/10/08/ios-12-screen-time-iphone-battery-drain/)
- Turned off Background refresh on apps I don't need
- Started using Airplane Mode + WiFi while at home. An article suggested this would save both because both radios are not on and it is not constantly checking for cell coverage. I don't know if that is true but it seems to have helped.
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I would enable Beamforming as that can be enabled. I don't think the SE phone is MIMO capable. The 7 might be so you could try enabling MIMO and see. Disable it if you don't see any differences.
Can try this:
Advanced Wireless Settings both 2.4GHz and 5GHz changed CTS/RTS Threshold to 2307.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-RBR40-RBS40-V2-1-4-16-mesh-network-drops-connection-to/m-p/1601598/highlight/true#M35230
"I changed the CTR/RTS threshold values for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz (2341 and 2345 respectively), changed preamble modes to long preamble, and Set 20/40Mhz Coexistence to 40Mhz only."- https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/10/08/ios-12-screen-time-iphone-battery-drain/
Not sure if you have this enable or not. you should double check it too
Any status on this?
JTrtt wrote:
Purchased RBR50 on 08 October 2018. Firmware V2.2.1.210
One Orbi Satellite-1
Six connected devices: Two iPhones running OS/12, a Windows 10 Desktop, a printer, a Roku, a sterio receiver TX-8170
MU-MIMO is disabled
Beamforming is disabled
Fast Roaming is disabled
Daisy Chain is enabled
The battery on my iPhones (an SE and a 7) drain visibly while I watch. In a matter of hours, it went from 60% to 10% battery.
Did not have this problem with the older wireless router.
I have two weeks to solve this before returning the device to BestBuy to get a competitor product.
I would appreciate any help.
Thank you for the advice so far. I have done the following:
- Enabled Beamforming and MIMO
- Disabled Screentime on my iPhones (by default, it was enabled on my phone and disabled on my wife's)
- Reduced power on the 2.4 GHz channel to 25% (only used by my printer)
I am also looking at using Airplane Mode (with wireless on).
I reckon I need to test this for a day or two to see if this resolved the issue.
I will update this note by end of the week.
Sounds good.
I promised to update after a few days of testing. After doing the following, the battery drain on my iPhone SE has improved so that it is only consuming 10%-20% per day which is very much better than I had before. I am encouraged. Thank you FURRYe38 and pdang for the help!
Here is what I did:
On the Orbi RBR50
- Enabled MU-MIMO
- Enabled Beamforming
- Enabled Fast Roaming
- Enabled Daisy Chain
On the iPhone SE
- Disabled Screen Time (a huge improvement; see https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/10/08/ios-12-screen-time-iphone-battery-drain/)
- Turned off Background refresh on apps I don't need
- Started using Airplane Mode + WiFi while at home. An article suggested this would save both because both radios are not on and it is not constantly checking for cell coverage. I don't know if that is true but it seems to have helped.
Good to hear. Mark this thread as solved so others will know when needed.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
JTrtt wrote:
I promised to update after a few days of testing. After doing the following, the battery drain on my iPhone SE has improved so that it is only consuming 10%-20% per day which is very much better than I had before. I am encouraged. Thank you FURRYe38 and pdang for the help!
Here is what I did:
On the Orbi RBR50
- Enabled MU-MIMO
- Enabled Beamforming
- Enabled Fast Roaming
- Enabled Daisy Chain
On the iPhone SE
- Disabled Screen Time (a huge improvement; see https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/10/08/ios-12-screen-time-iphone-battery-drain/)
- Turned off Background refresh on apps I don't need
- Started using Airplane Mode + WiFi while at home. An article suggested this would save both because both radios are not on and it is not constantly checking for cell coverage. I don't know if that is true but it seems to have helped.