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Orbi RBRE 960 drops WiFi clients several times a day
I recently installed a Orbi WiFi 6 RBRE960 router with two satellites. Both the satellites are connected over hardware backhaul. WiFi clients connected to both satellites randomly are dropped throug...
Update. I was able to get the connection between the Satellites and Router to be stable by switching from a hardwired backhaul to wireless backhaul. It is about 90% more stable now but still has a few issues. My "far away" satellite works great when it shows it is connected to the "not so far away" satellite for its connection. But randomly the "far away" satellite will connect directly to the router and it shows a poor backhaul status. I have no clue why it does this, there are no power outages or anything that I can tell would cause the backhaul connection to change.
Anyone else seeing this? I think I will post this as a new issue.
Thanks for the suggestion. My cable modem is a fiber router / gateway managed by my ISP. It is locked down (doesn't have WiFi or anything I can manage). Since I switched from a hardwired backhaul to wireless backhaul the DHCP traffic has settled down and things are much more stable. If I had to guess I think there is an issue with the 960s over a hardwired configuration.
Well, if it works it works, but I would have expected the wired backhaul to be superior to the wireless backhaul. Never mind!
I still think it's worth relieving the Orbi of DHCP work. If you have a NAS or any other server on your network, it can probably be configured as a DHCP server. The Pi-Hole raspberry pie DHCP server is rock solid, and is a cheap way of seeing if you can improve stability further.