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Sunhousehold
Sep 30, 2020Follower
Nighthawk MK63 Satellites dropping and IoT devices “missing”
Hi everyone, I'm on my 2nd set of MK63's and I'm close to just giving up. I love the speed and coverage these units give me when they're working, but I haven't been able to have more than 36hrs o...
jimryan
Nov 25, 2020Aspirant
I had satelitte to router connection issues on prior firmware versions and when router and satelitte were on different firmware verisons (auto update seemed to allow this to happen). I'm on firmware V1.0.6.102_2.0.45 (the latest at the time I'm writing this) for both router and satelittes with no satelitte disconnect issues. I have a large number of IoT devices connected; car charger, Nest thermostat, garage door, Wyze camera, Squeezeboxes, etc. Some have the ability to be monitored and notified on outage; car charger. In addition, I use Ombi to organize my home which has the built-in the ability to monitor devices with some limitations (I believe it uses client rather than server based polling - only works when client is being used). I'm fairly confident external server based polling (car charger) notifications are very reliable. While working from home my browser based notification allow me to poll more devices. Based on that polling information I notice that devices (both IoT and laptops) are disconnected from satelittes from time to time. After several hours they will reconnect. Rebooting resolves the issue for some time. Other than that I don't have many details at the moment but suspect it is a satelitte firmware bug.