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RIP Orbi
So my RBR50 died overnight. It was fine before we went to bed but awoke to no internet. Inspected the router but only the green led in the back was on. IDK what happened but it's a little sus that it...
OrbiStillDead wrote:
Ebay has a lot for sale, mostly used of course but the prices are too good to pass up.
Usually because people will buy a kit for the satellites and then sell the router.
That's fine by me. I only need the router to run the satellite. What i want to know is why these things just stop working for no good reason? I have stuff that is much older and still going strong till this day. Three years is nothing. Netgear is probably responsible for murdering our equipment lol
The culprit tends to be heat, moisture, time. Eventually they'll all die. the older stuff tends to last longer because its made or larger die manufacturing process that can tolerate more before they fail.
the newer stuff gets, the smaller process get and the more heat/potential for failures there are.
I still have an RBR50 from when orbi was initially released thats running fine. Its been few quite a few sketchy/beta firmwares and keeps surving.
Sadly, its hard to predict when electronics go bad.
Another item that can kill any router, heat. Internal heat even though there is ambient cooling, heat over time will kill off internal hardware. Something to help with this is to put a laptop cooler under a router for 24/7 additional cooling. Been using extra cooling since 2012.
Bro this thing was living the good life. I made sure that it was well taken care of. I was the only one handling it. Nobody else was allowed to touch it lol. But i get your point, things fail sometimes just because. I'm thinking of getting two RBR50's and converting one into a satellite just in case the one i have now ends up dying too. I'm doing that because for some reason the satellites are stupid expensive, even used ones compared to the router.
Well things can happen even while "living the good life". Handling doesn't really matter. It's the conditions and also can be FW or how FW is applied.
