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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.
firmware 4.6.14.3
RBR850
RBR850
That is not the current released version of FW:
- when I run the firmware check it says “no new firmware updates available” and I’ve already set it up with a different SSID.
Sometimes the system may not be in the NG update data base. Or NG doesn't make FW available via Auto Update. So users have the option to manually update as well.
Also make sure that your check for FW updates is enabled prior to checking. NG added this feature in v4 FW after long years of users complaining about auto updates breaking systems. So Users have control now.
- the last thing I’m gonna do is go in to my perfectly working, newly configured router, 4 satellites and 43 devices to manually update the firmware…lol
I’ve been around long enough to know better than that…