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Ekhail, you are my freakin hero! We just purchased the orbi system, and it seemed like a great fit for our house. Our old Asus router developed an issue after three years where after about 1-2 days of up time, you would start getting 2-3 second lag spikes when gaming. Not cool. I got tired of resetting it all the time, and decided to upgrade. There doesn't seem to be a lot of good routers out right now. All of them appear to have some issue or another. The orbi looked like it was free of most of those issues. But, after about 2-3 days of use, it dropped our Wan. Wifi was fine. I knew it was the wan because even my wired devices dropped off the internet. At first, I thought it was related to parental controls, or something like that. So, I disabled all of those. Didn't help. Next I searched the internet... found nothing helpful. I contacted netgear support. What a joke that was. They asked a million questions, and wanted me to change my DNS settings to google's public server. Look, I'm oldschool... I was microsoft certified for windows NT 4.0 enterprise. I've been around. I knew this was not a DNS issue. I was all set to pack it up and ship it back when I rememberd back in the day when I went to lan parties. back then, no one had DHCP servers or routers with DHCP. We had a white board, and everyone wrote their name next to an IP address and manually assigned. The system worked great until that one plebeian who never changed his settings from the last lan showed up and created an IP conflcift. That's when it hit me... this was acting just like an IP conflict. So, I changed my key word searches for a fix, and stumbled upon this thread. I made the changes, and sure enough.... been up for a week without incident. What annoys me more than anthing about this whole situation is that Netgear broke this with a firmware patch MONTHS ago, and still hasn't fixed it. What annoys me even MORE is that they HAVE to know this is an issue by now. What annoys me EVEN MORE than that, is that this was not the first thing presented to me as a fix when I contacted support. What a joke. But, I digress. Thank you for the fix... you saved netgear a return.
You need to telnet into your router and fix the Ip lease time.
Just follow the directions. It’s not super complicated. If you’re running Windows 10 you may need to enable telnet first. It’s built into windows but not enabled by default. You can google how to turn it on.
This worked for me as well for my TLC Roku TV that kept dropping internet connections everytime it was turned off and never auto reconnected to network. I have a Google Fiber router with this Mesh router setup setup. Seems like this should be the default setting now with some patch - config set wan_lease=1200. This solution is way to technical for most users IMO.
This worked for me as well for my TLC Roku TV that kept dropping internet connections everytime it was turned off and never auto reconnected to network. I have a Google Fiber router with this Mesh router setup setup. Seems like this should be the default setting now with some patch - config set wan_lease=1200. This solution is way to technical for most users IMO.
Been having a similar issue with my new RBK753 and have been trying to follow the directions here, but whenever I go to the Debug page, there's no option to enable Telnet. Has the ability been removed?
Been having a similar issue with my new RBK753 and have been trying to follow the directions here, but whenever I go to the Debug page, there's no option to enable Telnet. Has the ability been removed?
I recommend NOT using the modem DMZ for the RBR in AP Mode. When in AP mode, the RBR doesn't provide any kind of firewall protection. This is only used when the RBR is in router mode. IF you have the RBR in AP mode in the modems DMZ, you maybe suseptible to attacks and are NOT protected by the modems firewall.
