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Orbi RBR50 dropping internet connection constantly
Hello,
On July 4th I purchased my Orbi router on a recommendation from a friend. I previously tried a Linksys AC1900 and it consistently dropped my internet connection (Charter Spectrum). I took ...
Correct, it is Modem mode. My guessing goes in a similar direction, as the Orbi in AP mode shows no weakness, neither in WLAN nor in LAN connections, hence somehow the flaw lies in the connection between the modem and Orbi. I tried already once your proposed approach, but did not succeed, I will give it again a try. In my current setup the UPC box has the address 192.168.1.1 and the Orbi 192.168.1.2 on the LAN side, and a 84.x.x.x. address, which it got from the UPC on the internet side. Just to be sure, as in the UPC box I have to enter an IP address in the DMZ settings. would that be the 192. address or the 84. address?
Hditter wrote:
Correct, it is Modem mode. My guessing goes in a similar direction, as the Orbi in AP mode shows no weakness, neither in WLAN nor in LAN connections, hence somehow the flaw lies in the connection between the modem and Orbi. I tried already once your proposed approach, but did not succeed, I will give it again a try. In my current setup the UPC box has the address 192.168.1.1 and the Orbi 192.168.1.2 on the LAN side, and a 84.x.x.x. address, which it got from the UPC on the internet side. Just to be sure, as in the UPC box I have to enter an IP address in the DMZ settings. would that be the 192. address or the 84. address?
Just to be sure, those addresses are the ones you see in the UPC box, right?
The Orbi address for the DMZ forwarding would be 192.168.1.2 in this case.
Back with UPC connect box in router mode, DMZ set to 192.168.1.2 . I had some hickups with the correct settings in the Orbi, but now it seems to work. In the first place I had left the setting "Internet IP address" to "get dynamically from ISP", which for some reasons did not work. Then I set it up as static IP Adress with 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.1 as Gateway (the UPC Box LAN IF). I received an error message but the router restarted and reconfigured its DHCP range to 10.0.0.x with now the Router address being 10.0.0.1 and the Interaddress of the router being 192.168.2. It seems to work, though. I have now a bit of an unfamiliar internal IP address range but that is not bothering me too much, as long as the router works now as it should. I will have to keep an eye on it over the next days, but a first test looked promising. Thank you very much, for your support! I will post in the next days, if this solution was the ultimate remedy for my Orbi problems.