Orbi RBRE960 once router power cycles or loses connection to modem wifi devices do not reconnect

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TheSiskoDax wrote:

Last time this happened, I had to manually reset the router and then create a new wifi network/password and reconncect all wifi devices. 

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There may have been a miscommunication with support.  There is a huge difference between doing a factory reset on the router and creating a new WiFi SSID/password. Reset does require new network settings.  Every time I install a new WiFi router (or do a reset on the installed router) I use exactly the same SSID/password during the setup.  That way, (a) every device will connect automatically when the WiFi SSID appears, and (b) if I decide to "go back" to the previous router, I just plug it in and every device connects automatically.

If devices are not connecting, creating a new SSID/password is not the solution.

(The main reason so many of us view a factory reset as the "last resort when all else has failed" is because we have spent a lot of time customizing the router settings. I prefer to have all my devices show "nice names" in the Attached Devices display, and I prefer them to have IP addresses in a certain order. This takes a lot of time to set up by creating entries in the LAN setup table and modifying all of the device descriptions.  None of this is necessary for the devices to function.  But after spending so much time getting it "just so", the thought of doing it all again is not attractive.)