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Orbi dropping wireless, now rebooting itself. I am SO SICK OF THIS!
I am an IT Professional and I have bought this Orbi RBK50 system for my home network, since my family and I have recently moved into a 3600 sq ft house.
This system has been nothing but trouble...
Pete:
Take it back to Best Buy? I bought this in 2016.
This reset happened again this morning. At around 6:00 WiFi dropped. The unit appeared to reset. I was just booting up to do some early work.
No explanation for why it happened. The logs were reset and show the unit starting fresh. Nobody was using the WiFi at that time for anything serious. I had just connected a VPN to my office.
The reboot: your wired router clients are also disconnecting and the power light cycles in the back of the unit, right?
In my case (which was chalked up to hardware failure or FW firmware critical bugs), the wired router clients always worked, but everything using anything wireless (router WiFi SSID died, satellite WiFi SSID died, wired satellite clients) lost connection for ~30 seconds to 1 minute every few hours.
I'm quite disappointed by the Orbi and it looks like I'm far from alone.