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TrustKibou
Aspirant
Jan 30, 2022

Orbi RBR850 Issues After Power Outage

Hey yall! Everyone's past comments/posts have helped me so much in the past, but unfortunately, I haven't found anything that can help me with this problem. :/ For some reason, whenever my Orbi (main...
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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 31, 2022

Some ISP's are a little more challenging in how the IP address is handed out 

then need to be booted in a certain order. 

Next time. have everything powered off for a couple minutes. then boot up the modem and give it a couple minutes to fully boot. 

Then boot up the router. 

 

If that doesn't help, try disconnecting everything hardwired to the router and follow the same sequence. I had a sketchy media streamer the one time that whenever it was hardwired in, would prevent the router from pulling an IP from the modem (it shouldn't). Replaced it and I haven't had to worry about it since but it was a **** to figure out what was causing my issues.