Traffic meter in firmware V2.7.3.22

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pdeethardt wrote:

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No, I have not peformed a factory reset as of yet. The traffic meter is a non-essential item for me so I don't want to go through the hassle of reconfiguring my system for something minor like that. I was just curious if others were having the same issue.

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I agree. Traffic Meter is obviously defective.  We will all learn on November 7 if the firmware update has eliminated the bugs that caused so much frustration last March.  Doing a Factory Reset will zero out last month and this month, so it will take until Nov 1 to find out if the reset had any effect.

 

There are two ways to do a Factory Reset, the hard way and the quick way.

• As you pointed out, a complete Factory Reset can take a long time.  In my case, it is about two hours to make all the device reservations, enter all the device descriptions, set up DHCP, DNS, DDNS, OpenVPN, etc. etc.  I do not set the WiFi SSID until everything is set up, because I do not want devices jumping on the Orbi and getting random IP address assignments before the LAN setup table is defined.  It is rare to find a time when the network can disappear for two hours.
• The quick way is to
  *  Copy the configuration file to a PC
  *  Do the Factory Reset
  *  During the setup, do NOT change the WiFi SSID
  *  Enter almost nothing until you get to the option of "Load a Saved Configuration"
  *  Load the saved configuration
  *  The router reboots and is back to the way it was
  *  All devices see the SSID has returned and begin to connect.

For me, the difference is 15 minutes vs. over two hours.

 

Are they exactly the same? No. Of course not. The concept is that there may have been 'garbage' in memory (like the Traffic Meter tables) that does not get saved as part of the 'configuration'. The Factory Reset eliminates that garbage, and the useful information in the configuration gets restored.