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Using same SSID on replacement RBR850 router would not work.
I have two complete Orbi systems with satellites, one at each home here in Georgia. They have worked very well and I’m very happy with them. , The 4 year old RBE850 ORBI 6 started dropping its Wi-Fi ...
what I'd try?
Go through and shut off as many of your wifi devices as possible. Then setup the orbi with the same ssid/password. Start slowly turning devices back on to see if they work.
Reason I say this is for about a year, I had an issue with an orbi on bootup if my firetv box was on. If I unplugged the firetv and booted up everything and then turned on the firetv, it was fine. But if the firetv was on first, it wouldn't bootup properly. That was a challenge to figure out that it was something with the firetv causing issues and not the router.
I'm not sure if it was flooding the router with requests on bootup or what the issue turned out to be because I got tired of messing with it and threw it out.
Just curious if thats the issue. And if switching the SSID to a different one is just making it so whatever device is causing the issue isn't flooding the router on bootup.
what I'd try?
Go through and shut off as many of your wifi devices as possible. Then setup the orbi with the same ssid/password. Start slowly turning devices back on to see if they work.
Reason I say this is for about a year, I had an issue with an orbi on bootup if my firetv box was on. If I unplugged the firetv and booted up everything and then turned on the firetv, it was fine. But if the firetv was on first, it wouldn't bootup properly. That was a challenge to figure out that it was something with the firetv causing issues and not the router.
I'm not sure if it was flooding the router with requests on bootup or what the issue turned out to be because I got tired of messing with it and threw it out.
Just curious if thats the issue. And if switching the SSID to a different one is just making it so whatever device is causing the issue isn't flooding the router on bootup.
that’s pretty much what we decided also but since the labor involved would be the same shutting all my devices down as it would be just changing the station ID and reprogramming them, I went with the safer route to get it over with.