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RBE771/RBE770 Orbi Loses connection constanly
Since I installed the Orbi 770 with the modem provided by SmartCity Telecom (ISP) I loose internet connection mostly twice a day. Moreover, I decided to force an IP Address lease renewal from the mo...
Dakar15 wrote:
I decided to force an IP Address lease renewal from the modem & I was able to replicate the issue...
Great experiment. Could you please be more specific (detailed) about the exact process used to do this (a) with the router connected to the Smart City modem, and (b) with a computer connected?
If, for example, the process was to select the "Renew" button on the Advanced Tab, Connection Status display, I would find it useful to have enabled the debug option to Enable LAN/WAN Packet Capture. (Found on http://orbilogin.net/debug.htm ). I would hope this would show the router issuing DHCP requests to the network and the responses from the network.
On the computer, I would use Wireshark (free for Windows and MacOS at http://wireshark.org ).
What lease duration does Smart City assign? Spectrum issues a one day (86,400 seconds) lease for IPv4 and a one week (604,800 seconds) for IPv6. Thus, my router attempts to renew the IPv4 lease in 12 hours. Does it appear that this problem "matches up" with the DHCP lease?