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Wifi keeps dropping
Replacing my 2 Airport Extreme APs & 1 Airport Express (one on each floor) The GND floor Airport Extreme was connected a SKY router. I relaced all the Airport fit with the Orbi router RBR50 and Sat R...
Hi Darren,
I changed the wireless channel made no difference - the satellite is not dropping, its the wired connect between the Orbi base station and the router that's dropping.
dubirl (Kieran)
Hello dubirl
Have you tried different cords and a different port on the SKY router?
DarrenM
Hi Darren,
The sky router only has two ports - one connects to the ISP and the second is the ethernet port which the Orbi is connected to. I had our IT guy look at the setup, we have figured out there must be something wrong with the boxes. Orbi drops its IP addresses, we have confirmed this by looking at the logs on the Sky router which provides DHCP. We took the Orbi to my office and setup the Router and Sat again and saw the problem reapprear - difference router and ISP. At this point I don't see any other option but to return the boxes.
I reconnected the Airport Extreme AP's - DHCP provided from the Sky router and thus so far no issues. The Airport networt is setup in bridge mode with 3 boxes one located on each floor - GND / 1st / Attic Conversation.
Lastly Orbi router was setup on the ground floor, Orbi Sat located on the landing on the 1st floor, unfortunately the signal couldn't reach the the furthest point where I office is located in the Attic conversation. Was planning to connect one Airport AP to the Orbi base station and setup a seperate WIFI. :smileysad: no joy!
DubIRL (Kieran)