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berserk74
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Jul 31, 2023

Orbi RBR750 ethernet outs randomly stop working

Hello, 

Hope someone has a suggestion to help.  I have RBR750, worked pretty good for a around 2 year minus the usual hiccups that Comcast service provides.  

Comcast had some rough patches this summer, lots of outages, sometimes 20 drops a day.

In this time, kept noticing my 2 satellites to the RBR750 are more purple than not.

 

FF some weeks, comcast seems to have fixed issues.  But now all the hard wired items keep dropping out.  Sometimes they came back in 5 min or so, but sometimes not, have to pull plug on the Orbi router, then wait maybe 5 minutes or so.

 

I have out of the router, cat6 to netgear 308 which then runs to each Orbi satellite as well as to some direct devices.  

I also use another cat6 out of the router (it is in my office) to a negear gs105 switch.  This switch feeds my 4 computers in the office.  

 

When the ethernet outs seem to lose a signal, wifi is rocking and has no issues.  I just see my satellites go purple often and my office computer show no internet.  

Very random when this occurs, but few times a day now, and random in what fixes, as pulling plug on the router "usually" gets the cat6 wired things going in about 5 minutes (wife is back up in a minute).  But sometimes they drop again, and come back on their own in 5 min.  I was thinking it was my gs105 as I swapped to that above mentioned 308 for the one switch, but didn't seem to change much.  Again wifi never drops during any of this, all devices that are connected to the wifi still have fast internet.  

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