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Roamabout
Feb 28, 2018Luminary
Orbi Guest network question
I enabled the guest wifi today in anticipation of having some people over tomorrow. I changed the ssid but left it with no security. My intention was to enable it while people are here then turn it o...
Roamabout
Mar 02, 2018Luminary
FURRYe38wrote:I was told that only the wireless radios will shut down and come back online when GN is enabled. The main LAN network and router of the Orbi still should remain online while the wireless process the GN enable request.
All of my orbi rebooted, their system uptime counters were reset to zero.
FURRYe38
Mar 02, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Interesting. From what I was told, that should not happen. I'll test this again as well.
It was said to ping the router while you enabled or disabled GN and see if you get results, I guess not in your case if everything is resetting on your system.
I'll relay this info.
I would contact DarrenM and let him know what your seeing.