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RBRE960B compatibility with BGW320-500
Hi, I'm currently running an AT&T Fiber connection with a BGW320-500 modem/router combo unit. First week of March I picked up an Orbi RBRE960B and swapped out my old Netgear Nighthawk for it. I i...
Yeah I'll give that a try. Will have to wait until after work. I WFH and have the Nighthawk connected currently so I can stay online.
On a side note, just as a test I took the RBR to the other end of the house and plugged it into the power to see what would happen. About ten minutes later the modem dropped again. Went and unplugged the RBR from the wall and I was back online before I got back to my chair.
I'm not immediately sure of the precise channels, but all are set to the highest available option. I'm currently only showing one neighbor, running on channel 1. I know quite a few more SSIDs pop up in the list in the evening. Maybe 5 - 10 total. I've monitored that a bit last month and I'd never seen any terrible overlap with the channels I'm using. Maybe one or two, not in the same channel but on a nearby frequency.
Firmware is 6.0.3.85
I haven't tried AP mode. But I disabled the 6ghz band about 6 hours ago and so far there have been no issues. That said, it's worked for a week or two with no issues before, but this week it's been a really consistent pass/fail situation.
I haven't tried AP mode. But I disabled the 6ghz band about 6 hours ago and so far there have been no issues. That said, it's worked for a week or two with no issues before, but this week it's been a really consistent pass/fail situation.
- Is this how you're still configured, or did you change ISPs/routers?
I've disable 6ghz wifi per your earlier post and now the BGW320 came right up. Solid white. SMH.
Sorry to hear that. But it makes me feel a bit better that it's not just me seeing this behavior.
To be honest, after struggling with it off and on for a couple months, once I found disabling the 6ghz resolved any issue... I've just left it that way and stopped putting time and energy into it. My mobile phone is my only wifi 6 device currently anyway. Haven't done any additional follow up troubleshooting at all. No issues in almost two months now with the 6ghz disabled. Tremendous waste of money though using this router without the 6g band.
I started to post on the AT&T forum about the modem, since that seems to be where the problem is. But never went back and actually posted anything after signing up. Would love to hear the results if you get any further with it. I'm not sure I care enough to keep troubleshooting at this point. Started back in like early February.
It really seems like just changing ISP and getting a third party modem would be a functional fix. But I don't have any alternate ISP options here that wouldn't make it pointless to have wifi 6 anyway.I went over it with some more techs today as my router-modem issue apparently also brought down some of the neighbors service. Anyway, I pointed them to your post as where I found my fix. They are going to escalate it and get hold of the same Orbi router so they can replicate the issue back at ATT. I just posted to ATT's forum regarding our exciting issue also..