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Travisivart
Dec 26, 2025Follower
RBE971 AP: Wi-Fi drops, wired stable, QCN9224 SSR & 6GHz fatal errors
Hi all, I am looking for help/visibility from Netgear staff/engineering. I have been having this issue since around the time of the Hardware / Firmware Model: Orbi RBE971 (single unit used as ...
FURRYe38
Jan 14, 2026Guru - Experienced User
So this one PC with WiFi 7 RZ717 hardward seems to cause the Orbi wifi radios to stop working on the RBR when this PC is cold started?
Seems like some kind of interference with this one PCs wifi radios causing the RBR radios to crash. Would not be good.
Good find and narrowing it down. Will pass this to NG for review.
RicOShea wrote:Upon startup during a cold boot, the wifi on that system will never connect, and when I observe the router the wifi radios appear to be off, all satellites disconnect, but there is nothing in the logs captured via the web interface. Anything hardwired to the router is still functional via ethernet. The machine in question has AMD's RZ717 Wi-Fi 7 hardware on the motherboard and has the 5.6.0.4444 driver for that wifi module installed, which was released I believe in the october/november timeframe.
RicOShea
Jan 14, 2026Guide
Without fail.
- FURRYe38Jan 14, 2026Guru - Experienced User
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- RicOSheaJan 14, 2026Guide
I would be very curious to know if Travisivart​ has similar AMD hardware connecting to his RBE971