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Anyone seeing internet connection drops with Armor enabled?
I installed Armor on my 2 1/2 year old Orbi and started having internet drops once I streamed content on my TV. I had the same issue when I thought I had removed Armor but apparnetly I had not. I f...
I had the free trial for one year with the purchase of my orbi, all seems to work flawlessly. I let the license expire and deactivated it. About 6 months later I re-activated it, and had very similar issues to what you are describing. All of our computers were dropping connection, the router was dropping connection, and web pages would not load consistently.
Could not figure out the issue, and I was ready to call and cancel the Armour service. Turns out I was just too lazy to read the errors that my machine was popping on me when it would not load properly. I simply ignored them and tried to refresh, the answer was right in front of me.
My son kept getting an error on his windows machine, could not connect to DNS server. He came and asked me if that could be the problem and did I know how to fix it. It was an ahh-ha moment. I went into the router settings and changed the DNS server to the google server 8,8,8,8, and it's been smooth sailing ever since.
I believe the Netgear Armour possibly changes the DNS, or simply does not play nice with my internet providors default DNS. However, with this fix all seems to be working properly now.