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V1.3.0.12 - Outstanding Issues
Model: Netgear Orbi RBK50 (Orbi Base + Satallite) Firmware: V1.3.0.12 OS: Not relevelnt, but Wndows 10 Pro x64 anyway Browsers: Any, Primary Browser is Chrome though. I have seen several peopl...
My IPhone 6 is working fine. My wife's iPhone 7 hasn't consistently been refreshing apps such as facebook since moving from the Nighthawk X8 to the Orbi system. I also noticed her phone seems to stay connected to the satellite when mine is connected to the router even though we are sitting in the same room next to each other.
My wife's iPhone is a 7 Plus and mine is a 6S Plus and we both see the issue. Typically its when we are upstairs (the satallite is upstairs and the base unit is downstaris) that we notice it, thought sometimes we notice it in my living room but thats a pretty equal distance between both the base and the satallite so what i need to pay more attention to is which device its connected to when this issue occurs to see if i can find a pattern.
I may just unplug the satallite tonight and see how the rest of this week goes.
I haven't seen any issues at all with the 3 iPhone 6 Pluses we have. There is also an iPhone 7 here, but it's my mother-in-laws and honestly if it were having any issues with wifi I sincerely doubt she'd notice. I'll do a bit of testing with her device to see if I observe any problems.
Rodney
So keep in mind that what i'm seeing is specifically around facebook. What you'll notice is that facebook "seems" like its working just fine, since they now have an offline mode where it simply shows you what it saw last time you had a valid connection, you may not even realize you're not online or updated. You can check this by making sure that facebook is set to view your "most recent" feed instead of the now default view which puts posts facebook thinks are most important first (which may even be a day or two old).
Those with iPhone (and Facebook on iPhone) issues - is Orbi configured in router or AP mode?
Rodney