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Unstable network—need advice (warning—long)
I would appreciate some help and advice from this community (and the experts like furry and any Netgear folks) on how to get my network faster and more stable. Here are the details:
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tl;dr
I concur that Orbis kill your network after a power failure. My Motorola modem & Asus router & main Orbi AP are all on a UPS. My 2 Orbi satellites were not. A 2-second power outage required rebooting EVERYTHING, including the devices on the UPS!
I bought 2 more UPSes for the sats. My network never goes down now. I had a 10-minute outage the other day, and my network survived without a hiccup.
You can get an APC Back-UPS for US$40 or so. Well worth it.
RS:
Indeed I have all of my networking stuff on UPS (gateway, modem, Orbis, switches, 1 Apple TV, Lutron Caseta hub) as well as my computers, Synology NAS, and inkjet printer. I just need to get to a solid stable configuration.
See my cross post to Chris--I managed to crash back tonight and am back on a wireless backhaul.
Thanks for the info.
Oddly, once I got wired backhaul finally to work, it has always worked ever after. I’m on the latest fw, but even the previous fw worked for me. Hence my conclusion that Orbi success is random.