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Going nuts with Orbi 950 WiFi authentication(?) issues (every 2 weeks)
Good Morning!
I have an Orbi 953 (Costco version of Orbi 960 with a few differences), along with 2 satellite devices. I have around 90 devices connected across two SSIDs, let's call them "main" an...
Ok this is super useful. I did not realize Guest had a limited time leash, but so I understand:
If leash expires, clients should ask for a new DHCP allocation and get an IP. Why would a limited lease prohibit clients from getting a new IP on renew?
The intent of GN is for limited use as most users/guests are visiting a guest location for a limited period of time. There is not need to have long least times. The lease time are set for one lease and after that would probably need to reboot or reconnect to the GN to get a new least and IP address. Again, something not designed or intended for for GN for long term IoT devices. Use the IoT network, it's what this is for.
(It's probably too far "down the rabbit hole", but......)
If you are able to run a packet capturing application, such as Wireshark (https://www.wireshark.org free for Windows, Mac, Linux) it would be interesting to capture the DHCP conversation for devices connected to the guest WiFi. On the primary network, Orbi routers typically offer a one day lease (actually, 86,400 seconds). Devices start asking to renew the lease when only half of the time remains and finally have to abandon the IP entirely if the router does not offer them a lease after it is completely gone.
Just for myself, I am not ecstatic about the idea of "guests get only so long". What happens when relatives come to visit for a week? I guess dropping the WiFi connection and reconnecting will gain a new lease period. Netgear does not document features such as this, so we can only speculate about motivation.
Thank you CrimpOn FURRYe38 for your recommendations. I've enabled the IoT network and moved most of my IoT devices there and will observe/post back in a few weeks (or days, if the situation chooses to reoccur).
Interestingly, there is an option in the Orbi Mobile app which doesn't show itself on the web config. It exposes a setting that lets me decide how long a guest should stay connected. Default is "always" but you can set it to a few hours. Mine was always. That being said, I don't know what other nuances Guest introduces that Orbi doesn't talk about, so I moved.
CrimpOn: I wish I had saved the DHCP packet trace - that is how I found out it was not responding to DHCP requests in my original post. If it happens again, I'll post.
I get the feeling I'll be back, so for now, "au revoir".
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