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amenic
Sep 17, 2020Apprentice
Intermittent DNS lookup failures on RBR850
Intermittent DNS lookup failures RBR850 I've been using the Orbi RBR850 for several months now and I'm constantly having issues with DNS that I've NEVER experienced with any other router I've ever u...
aparkins30
Sep 29, 2020Aspirant
I think I figured this out (at least for me)
I was having the same issues - Orbi defaults to setting itself up in router mode (versus access point). Since my modem is a modem/router, I disabled the wifi on my modem, set my modem up with an IP passthrough specific to the Mac ID of the Orbi router, then set the Orbi up as an access point. Fingers crossed but so far so good, haven't been seing the issue anymore.