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RBK853 Ping Lags/Drops - Network unusable this morning
I'm NOT a happy camper. So this morning, my wife mentioned that the Wi-Fi was having issues early this morning and woke me up. I noticed that all security cameras were offline and my phone was h...
dtay wrote:The issues that I had experienced earlier yesterday were occuring again; cameras, etc. were all going offline. I quickly disconnected the power to the second satellite and the pings resumed back to normal and everything came back online.
This unfortunately sounds similar to the problem I'm having with my RBR850 system: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/RBS850-satellites-lose-internet-and-gateway-connectivity-several/m-p/1959554#M5926. My symptoms are like yours: Internet and local network connectivity is lost but as soon as one "problemmatic" satellite is powered off, things work again. I tried a bunch of workarounds (as reported in that thread) but did not find anything that solved the intermittent connectivity issues.
I was hopeful that the new V3.2.16.6_1.4.4 firmware would be a fix, but after a couple days of goodness last night things went downhill again. I've given up trying to experiment and find a workaround so now I've factory reset both my RBR50 and RBR850, then swapped things so my old RBR50 is doing the routing and my RBR850 is hanging off of it in AP mode. I just want and need a stable network environment and can experiment with a new RBR850 firmware much further down the road when things are much more mature and they've worked out all these mysterious issues.
Mikey94025 wrote:
dtay wrote:The issues that I had experienced earlier yesterday were occuring again; cameras, etc. were all going offline. I quickly disconnected the power to the second satellite and the pings resumed back to normal and everything came back online.
This unfortunately sounds similar to the problem I'm having with my RBR850 system: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/RBS850-satellites-lose-internet-and-gateway-connectivity-several/m-p/1959554#M5926. My symptoms are like yours: Internet and local network connectivity is lost but as soon as one "problemmatic" satellite is powered off, things work again. I tried a bunch of workarounds (as reported in that thread) but did not find anything that solved the intermittent connectivity issues.
I was hopeful that the new V3.2.16.6_1.4.4 firmware would be a fix, but after a couple days of goodness last night things went downhill again. I've given up trying to experiment and find a workaround so now I've factory reset both my RBR50 and RBR850, then swapped things so my old RBR50 is doing the routing and my RBR850 is hanging off of it in AP mode. I just want and need a stable network environment and can experiment with a new RBR850 firmware much further down the road when things are much more mature and they've worked out all these mysterious issues.
Thanks for the heads up. This has been a frustrating and weird issue, one that I didn't expect from what is supposed to be a flagship wireless mesh solution.