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JTrtt
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Oct 09, 2018
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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 ...
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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Oct 13, 2018

    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.

     

     

FURRYe38's avatar
FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 09, 2018

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."