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growly
Jan 14, 2021Tutor
Orbi changed its password
A week after our Orbi's web interface turned sluggish, failed to load some pages, and then bricked itself, I am now locked out of the device. I know the password is the correct one since it's the...
FURRYe38
Jan 14, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Well, avoiding the problem won't help either. Maybe a time bomb ready to go off as well and if a power bump hits it, then anything could happen there as well. You can keep on using it or you may want to take more proactive steps and find another RBR or something else to put in it's place. I would not want to hang my total operation of the RBR on not knowing if the RBR is beginning to fail. If there is any kind of doubt about the RBR, you shoul get it resolved sooner then later.
Good Luck.
growly
Jan 14, 2021Tutor
FURRYe38 wrote:Well, avoiding the problem won't help either. Maybe a time bomb ready to go off as well and if a power bump hits it, then anything could happen there as well. You can keep on using it or you may want to take more proactive steps and find another RBR or something else to put in it's place. I would not want to hang my total operation of the RBR on not knowing if the RBR is beginning to fail. If there is any kind of doubt about the RBR, you shoul get it resolved sooner then later.
Good Luck.
Thanks, and you're right. If only I could undo my purchase of this expensive garbage (I already had to replace 1 satellite).