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Another bug? Router does not see the manual IP address
Check this image out. I have my MacBook Pro set with a manual address - 192.168.1.154. Yet the router admin web page Attached Devices, and the Orbi app, show it as 192.168.1.22 - an automatic IP/DHC...
I have all my devices that connect to my 971 a reserved DHCP assigned IP. The RBE App always shows the same IP. Most all my connected devices are Arlo cams, keypads, sensors, chimes, doorbells , google smoke alarms , Schlage deadbolts. These IoT devices don’t show their assigned IPs, and you can’t use a GUI approach to get into them, so I don’t know if the Orbi app reserved IPs are what the device is using or not.
I also have 6E disabled on my only Apple device, but the 5Ghz is not handing off smoothly between nodes.
donawalt, are you staying in one spot while you are discovering this static IP bug, or moving between nodes?
I don’t know how DHCP IP and static ip’s work, but I think the 971 issue regardless of 5Ghz or 6Ghz band is that WiFi drops out frequently (moving between nodes, or not moving around. So the router “discovers a new device and says hey, it needs an IP. So it’s either not looking in your static IP address table first, it’s assigning a DHCP IP. But then, shortly (not on a predetermined time interval), the WiFi drops again, same flawed DHCP vs Static IP process happens again.
That’s probably why your log showed so many DHCP requests. Every time WiFi drops out, the router sees a “new device” and the bug IP assignment process starts anew.
Ever morning when I get up, my iPhone shows 5G cellular, it takes anywhere from 15secs to 2 mins to connect again to Orbi 5Ghz band (I have 6Ghz disabled). Something in these NG WiFi 7 mesh systems is not working correctly.
I also have 6E disabled on my only Apple device, but the 5Ghz is not handing off smoothly between nodes.
donawalt, are you staying in one spot while you are discovering this static IP bug, or moving between nodes?
I don’t know how DHCP IP and static ip’s work, but I think the 971 issue regardless of 5Ghz or 6Ghz band is that WiFi drops out frequently (moving between nodes, or not moving around. So the router “discovers a new device and says hey, it needs an IP. So it’s either not looking in your static IP address table first, it’s assigning a DHCP IP. But then, shortly (not on a predetermined time interval), the WiFi drops again, same flawed DHCP vs Static IP process happens again.
That’s probably why your log showed so many DHCP requests. Every time WiFi drops out, the router sees a “new device” and the bug IP assignment process starts anew.
Ever morning when I get up, my iPhone shows 5G cellular, it takes anywhere from 15secs to 2 mins to connect again to Orbi 5Ghz band (I have 6Ghz disabled). Something in these NG WiFi 7 mesh systems is not working correctly.
Roc1 it’s independent of moving around for me.
Roc1 , TC_in_Montana tried to figure it out with debug logs, but eventually hit a brick wall, I think due to lack of documentation and help from NG.