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Orbi RBR50 and Slow WiFi Problems with iOS Devices
I’ve been experience a very strange problem with slow WiFi speeds on my iOS devices for a few months now and was wondering if anyone might be able to point me to something to try to fix it. It se...
just countering your absurd statements:
"DO NOT PURCHASE ANY ORBI PRODUCT IF YOU HAVE WIRELESS APPLE DEVICES
Be aware there is a long-standing issue with Orbi and Apple IOS devices that Netgear
Has completely ignored. What happens is that over a 24-36hour period wi-fi performace of IOS devices (iphones, iPads etc) will degrade until the IOS device can no longer connect to anything."
This is an obviously incorrect statement. I (and others) have multiple Apple products working perfectly.
For those of you who aren’t experiencing any problems with your Orbis, I think that’s wonderful for you and I’m glad that things are working well for you. However, when you come to this posting to tell us that we are wrong and that there are no issues with the system, seemingly implying that we’re wrong or just whiny, isn’t helpful at all and is basically mean a cruel.
I have read through all of the posts regarding these issues here and elsewhere and what I’ve seen is people spending countless hours performing troubleshooting and trying various settings to see if they can narrow down the problem. I, myself, have spent many, many hours performing troubleshooting and trying various settings to see if they had any impact on the strange behavior I was experiencing with the Orbis. That and the fact that I never had any WiFi issues on any other WiFi network hardware, that replacement of the Orbis has resolved all of the problems can only lead one to a single conclusion. The Orbis are causing the issues. Attempting to deny this fact is pointless and contributes nothing to this conversation nor does it help to rectify the situation.
So, in summary, if your Orbis are working well, great. It’s nice to hear that they have the potential to work properly, but don’t try to deny that there aren’t problems for others. Please try and contribute meaningful, helpful suggestions for what may be happening to us.
I think that the Orbis have great potential and when they work correctly, they perform extremely well and are definitely the fastest system that I’ve experienced. However, as they have proven to me to be unreliable over the long term, I have to find them fatally flawed at this point.
I feel like I repeat myself a lot in these forums.
I've posted something similar here before but here goes nothing:
there's an issue documented in this post: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/What-you-can-expect-with-your-Orbi-system/m-p/1503034#M23257 that many people have experienced with no concrete solution.
good luck - so far the only solution seems to be putting a smart outlet / timer on your satellite(s) to reboot them once every 24 hours (I'm not joking) or rolling back the firmware (but I still see people saying they experience the same issues on the older firmware)
see this guy: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-satellite-dropping-connection/m-p/1512445#M24230
I really don't understand the people here that think repeating the same things blindly (have you tried disabling beam forwarding? mimo? have you tried spinning in a circle 4 times while holding the orbi above your head and dancing with it?) and talk down on the users that experience real issues.I'm happy to see that the majority of people have their Orbis working well. However, for people to say "The HW works as its stands" and to say "It's when it's set up by users and the environments that will start to see various issues" undermines the people that have gone through troubleshooting and faced numerous headaches from these disconnect issues.Again, I appreciate people that are trying to help the community but it really rubs me the wrong way when this is most definitely an issue with the Orbi under certain network conditions and you blame the user setting it up - especially after I've spent the last few weeks pulling my hair out debugging this issue with no solution (except rebooting satellites multiple times a day) until I replaced the Orbi system completely.It is a counter point to those that claim the sky is falling. Read thru the Google forums or the Velop forums, plenty of people there have problems as well.
Wouldn't want someone considering purchasing this product to ASSuME that it is unanomously problematic. It isn't.