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New FW V2.1.1.16 (Router) and V2.1.0.18 (Beacon) - what's your experience?
Just received replacement RBK30 (RBR40/RBW30) Orbi system from Amazon and udpated to the current FW: Router RBR40 RBR40 V2.1.1.16 Satellite RBW30 Orbi Satellite-1 V2.1.0.18 ...
As I mentioned before - re-deploy the firmware to both satellites and router - that seems to have helped some people here with instability before. I'd also say after updating export your settings and then re-import them. Give time to stabilize and then power off router and satellites for 2 minutes before restarting.
What you are experiencing has to be a config issue.
I've been on the phone wNetgear level 2 support (my case escalated, they called me) and we went through an hour or more of TS and nothing changed, network drops continued.
Given this is my second set of HW and I have exactly the same results on both HW sets on multiple versions of 2.0.x and 2.1.x FW versions, after factory resets and re-flashing, I think it's clear there is a serious issue w/Orbi FW (and possibly some of their HW components) that is causing these issues.