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Luminary

Mar 24, 2020

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Circle seems to be randomly killing Internet ingress/egress from my Orbi starting this week

I have an RBR50 with two satellites. I have had Circle enabled for a number of months now with little issue. We actually use it quite a bit to limit electronics time for the kids. Starting this...

Hubba_Bubba
Sep 08, 2020
Hubba_Bubba wrote:
Activated Circle last evening on my RBR50 and RBS50 satellite after updating the firmware to the .32 version. So far, so good. No issues that I've yet to see.
Happy to confirm that two months later, that Disney Circle is operating just fine. No problems.

Kjellarne

Initiate

Mar 31, 2020

Wake up Netgear. Same issue with Circle here. I have used an Asus router with parental control for years without any hiccups. Upgraded to Orbi last week and never had so many issues with disconnected devices . Turning off circle seems to have solved all the disconnection issues. The worst part is that the circle is a subscription service. Extremely dissapointed right now.

Smge1lc

Guide

Mar 31, 2020

Disabling circle worked for a couple days but last night firetv just suddenly dropped off. Checking orbi at 192.168.1.1, found internet was off even though wifi was on with ,0.0.0.0 DNS. Rebooted both orbi and modem, and it repopulated the DNS that I changed from isp to 8.8.8.8.

I did install pi-hole in the last day, and I'm wondering if this could have been the issue. I am not going to point the router DNS to pi-hole and only select devices just so I monitor the stability of my internet/wifi.

Smge1lc
Guide
Apr 03, 2020
Just came home to a house full of my kids complaining that the internet is dead. Reset, and it works again. So much for circle as the culprit alone.

Come to think of it, I upgraded the firmware on the rbk20 satellites last night. I wonder if this is the culprit sans Circle?
- Kjellarne
  Initiate
  Apr 04, 2020
  Been 100% stable here since deactivation of circle. Have you reduced the lease time via Telnet?