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Over the past month approximately the disconnects have become increasingly frequent
My Orbi mesh system is 6 months old. After some initial setup pains, the system worked very well for 3-4 months. Over the past month approximately the disconnects have become increasingly frequent. A...
After making the changes noted above the network has been stable for many hours, although I did encounter one strange issue. All devices except my iPad were connecting fine, but the iPad disconnected every few seconds to minutes. I did some troubleshooting on Grok (Elon’s AI) which noted, “Orbi V10.5.20.3 mishandles Apple’s rotating MAC (Private Address) every 2–3 min and the iPad gets kicked from the network.” The solution was “Turn OFF “Private Wi-Fi Address”, Turn OFF “Low Data Mode”, Forget the network, then re-join with password and then reboot.” iPad is stable now.
Not sure if this is at all related, so your mileage may vary.
Ya something we've seen before.
Glad new configruation seems to be working, lets let it run for 3 days and see how it goes.
'Curses, foiled again,' as the saying goes. I spoke too soon and the dropped connections are back. As donawalt suggested I am getting the impression that this might be an Apple OS issue. As I write at this moment on an ASUS laptop I have no connection issues, but on the iPad, which is immediately adjacent to the laptop, the Orbi app will not connect to the Orbi router.
Ya seeing issues with new gen Apple devices.
Lets see if you can get 26.1 iOS loaded when it comes available. Might check to see if you can get it sooner on the device. Some can get early betas. If not, I guess we should wait.