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Satellite keeps losing connection, constantly doing DHCP
I have the Costco product with 1 router (RBR50) and 2 satellites (RBS50). One satellite is stable, while the other intermittently drops. I recently looked at the router logs and saw that the problem sat (:dd) is constantly doing DHCP. Does that mean something? Notice that the stable sat (:1c) hardly requests DHCP. The [snip] represents the part of the MAC address I've redacted because I felt like it -- don't judge me.
Does this seem like a hardware problem or another case of firmware bugs?
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 15:42:39
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 15:42:37
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 15:05:13
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 15:05:12
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 15:04:39
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 15:04:38
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 14:49:34
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 14:49:31
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 14:48:59
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 14:48:59
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 14:45:44
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 14:45:43
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 14:44:55
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.3] to MAC address [snip]:1c, Monday, November 27, 2017 13:10:05
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 13:09:58
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.3] to MAC address [snip]:1c, Monday, November 27, 2017 08:23:11
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.3] to MAC address [snip]:1c, Monday, November 27, 2017 08:23:10
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 08:23:10
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.2] to MAC address [snip]:dd, Monday, November 27, 2017 08:23:09
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I have the RB33K, and one satellite is 37 feet away the other 39 feet. Everything is performing well. I had blue lights at the initial placement, with no satellite disconnect issues to date. I do not believe there is a generalization about close and far (other than Netgear saying 30 feet minimum, 70 feet maximum). Enviroment, interference, and obstacles play a huge role in affecting the 5GHz backhaul.
JoeCymru wrote:I have the RB33K, and one satellite is 37 feet away the other 39 feet. Everything is performing well. I had blue lights at the initial placement, with no satellite disconnect issues to date. I do not believe there is a generalization about close and far (other than Netgear saying 30 feet minimum, 70 feet maximum). Enviroment, interference, and obstacles play a huge role in affecting the 5GHz backhaul.
Absolutely interference plays a huge role for 5ghz. However, many people had the Orbi running for 6 months to a year with the pre 2.x firmware and had to move sats after the 2.x upgrade was released.
Bottom line is, the pre 1.10.x firmware was largely stable for everyone, but starting with the 1.10.x release, it went highly unstable for large groups of users randomly.