Netgear Armor Outage?

I figured it out! Using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 DNS servers in Internet Setup were causing all my problems. I switched to the option of using my Internet provider’s.

I don’t know why using 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 was causing problems in the Orbi and RAX120 setups. The R9000 setup wasn’t using 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1, but it wasn’t configured to use Netgear Armor functionality, have the service activated, and maybe not even have the functionality as an option in the first place… can’t remember. Both setups use Sparklight Internet via a DOCSIS 3.1 modem… and Sparklight has 3.1 configured on their end.

Update: Just had another customer run into this issue… using an Orbi, Armor, and 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1. That makes three.

Is it Sparklight? Is it 1.1.1.1? Is it Armor? Don’t know, but not using 1.1.1.1 fixes the issue.

Hope this helps someone else.