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Orbi 770 – WiFi Drops Every Hour
At the beginning of the year, I posted in this forum about hourly interruptions with my ORBI770 mesh system. At the time, other users were experiencing similar problems, and I worked with Netgear Sup...
piddyy Snailman12 MojoGene and others, I have a different Orbi - 970 series. Now there are two sides to this problem, the router/satellites, and the devices. Netgear has been working hard on improvements to the 970 FW, but they have been improving/updating the 770 and others as well.
For me, the issue was Apple devices, and later model ones - ones that support WiFi 6E or 7. I would get multiple disconnects a day per device.
I would like to suggest one thing to try, based on my experience; Apples notes on iOS/iPadOS 26.1 explained that WiFi disconnects had been addressed. So on October 29, I installed iOS/iPadOS 26.1 RC; I figured it was close enough to release quality I wouldn't be burned too badly lol. Then, when 26.1 was generally released on Nov 3, I upgraded to that. So for 9 days now I have been on a flavor of 26.1, and I have not had a SINGLE disconnect on either my iPadPro 2024 or my iPhone 16 Pro Max! My devices were clean from disconnects on both the RC and gen release versions.
This doesn't address issues with non-Apple devices, but it would be an interesting data point.
So - for you - if you have not already, can you consider upgrading your Apple devices to 26.1 and see how it works?