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Orbi RBR50 - instability issues
My kids have been complaining about our wifi for 2 years. Now that I'm working from home I'm feeling their pain. I've rebooted my router probably a dozen times in the last week. Purchased Octob...
Thanks for the quick insight. Appreciate the guidance.
Any Wifi Neighbors near by? If so, how many? I do have a few wifi neighbors, depending on where you are in the house you can see about a half dozen signals, most of them are pretty weak.
I setup these settings after the factory reset. Hopefully it goes smooth.
New config:
2.4 Ghz Channel - 6
5 Ghz Channel - 48
Beamforming - enabled
MIMO - enabled
WMM - enabled
Armor - disabled
Circle - disabled
Daisychain - disabled
Fast Roaming - disabled
IPv6 - disabled
20/40 mhz coexistence - disabled
Short preable - enabled
Appreciate the insights. I'll try the factroy reset tomorrow.
Is there a place I can look for best practices on manually configuring the Orbi? I have been running a pretty vanilla configuration and I figure this will be a good time evaluate better options.
Over the past month or so, our RBR50 network (running 2.5.1.8) has turned into an unreliable nightmare monster that must be fed constant reboots to keep us online. ATeamAdam, would you please let us know if the factory reset and the new settings solved your issues?
Thanks!
Whats the mfr and model# of your ISP modem the router is connected too?
kilroy818 wrote:Over the past month or so, our RBR50 network (running 2.5.1.8) has turned into an unreliable nightmare monster that must be fed constant reboots to keep us online. ATeamAdam, would you please let us know if the factory reset and the new settings solved your issues?
Thanks!
FURRYe38 wrote:
Whats the mfr and model# of your ISP modem the router is connected too?Give up?
Sorry for the slow response. My stability has been much better since the factory refresh and making the changes. Honestly I think the biggest change was just turning off Circle. I could tell stability was better from that even before the factory refresh.
Circle seems to be causing problems for users of it. Keep it disabled. Please post over in the Circle forum thats something you will need. Hopefully NG will get that fixed. https://community.netgear.com/t5/Circle-Smart-Parental-Controls/bd-p/en-home-circle
Please mark your post thread as solved so others will know.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
ATeamAdam wrote:Sorry for the slow response. My stability has been much better since the factory refresh and making the changes. Honestly I think the biggest change was just turning off Circle. I could tell stability was better from that even before the factory refresh.
Maybe I spoke too soon. Yesterday things started getting weird again. We have mostly all Apple products in the house for personal use. Yesterday we started getting repeated prompts to share the wifi credentials with devices that were already on the network as if they couldn't connect anymore. My daughter's ipad was having connectivity issues most of the day.
I checked the orbi app and it is again showing no devices connected in both the device manager and in the network map.
I tried a powercycle, and I'm not getting the prompts to share credentials currently, but still no devices are shown attached.
I am currently sending this from an attached device, so I know there are devices attached, they just don't show up in the app. They also don't show up when I log in through the browser on my laptop.
I haven't changed any settings from my previous post, is there anything else to change?
