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Orbi 970 AP
Hi, Why do the Orbi 973 (2 sat) in AP-Mode do not work when the internet is down? I do not understand why it would disconnect any devices? The Wifi breaks and I cannot access any LAN shares anymor...
Seems that those you block are call to the mothership. I believe I saw that back in AX land years ago. Was attempting to block auto FW updates as they were causing problems and we couldn't stop that. I happened to notice that blocking some of those URLs caused the RBR to go PINK.
You'll need to not block those if you want the system to work right. Nothing we can do with the calling home of the mother ship stuff.
I actually blocked internetcheckorbi.netgear.com and some devcom.up.netgear.coms. Also some more now dealing with CDN and a netgear owned different domain. but they haven't caused any disconnect yet
My log is empty right now and have to wait for more entries again.
The router goes purple. The sats follow shortly after.
Why did I blocked it (AdGuard)? Because I do not understand the need for so many DNS requests in AP Mode.
Why I run it in AP? Because it can 🙂 My Router is a Fritz Cable (and I can and have tested 2). Since I'm in Germany, I cannot use the Orbi as Router if I want to avoid Double-NAT, because the Fritz takes the public IP and keeps it by itself and it is hard to have a fight with ISPs to get a second public IP But thats another story.
AP Mode is fine and the really big thing is its Wifi 7 Power. The rest in not important for me.
Firmware is V9.12.5.3_1.3.24
- registration.ngxcld.com
Seems that those you block are call to the mothership. I believe I saw that back in AX land years ago. Was attempting to block auto FW updates as they were causing problems and we couldn't stop that. I happened to notice that blocking some of those URLs caused the RBR to go PINK.
You'll need to not block those if you want the system to work right. Nothing we can do with the calling home of the mother ship stuff.
Yeah, guess I have to accept this.
But especially in AP Mode, this shouldn't cause any downtime when only the internet is down as this can happen any time. And then not have any Wifi just doesn't make sense.
But ok.