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My RBR850 system keeps kicking off my devices
My Mesh wifi system keeps kicking off my devices. It happens mostly with Apple devices (iPhone and iPad running the latest OS) My home has 3 floors and I have one device covering each floor, backhau...
I have EXACTLY the same issue.
I've put some time and effort into this, and it looks like it's some sort of issue with DNS that happens when device is "handed off" between the router and satellite.
I got a BETA version of the router software, and that SEEMED to fix it for a bit; but lately it's back with a vengance.
It APPEARS (but I need to do some more testing to verify) that it ONLY happens when the ORBI is used as a DNS. I have my own internal DNS servers; but am letting the ORBI "hand out" itrself as a "caching DNS". I'm gonna try to revert back later this week and verify the issue goes away, will keep posted!
Clay
- I use Cloudflare as a DNS server…
Interesting - are you using DCHP? What domain server(s) is your Orbi "advertising"?
If "hard code" Google as a domain service on my iPhone, the disconnects/reconnects go away; but that messes up some internal server access I need, so, I have to (re)implement internal DNS servers before I can test this "long tern:
Clay