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Orbi system - Faulty LAN / switching design - Will NG ever fix it?
Issue - Orbi system with 2 satellites (R1, S1, S2) will randomly drop LAN communication between segments. e.g. devices connected to S1 (both wired/wireless) won't be able to ping devices on S2 (or ...
So to recap, which mfr and model # switches are you using with the system now? Helpful to know this for anyone else looking or having problems. Not all switches are made the same I believe. There maybe differences between brands as well. I try to keep to one brand of switch through out the configuration to maintain some sort of uniformitiy. Have a mixed brand of switches in play may also be causing odd problems as well. I have tested two brands and keep these separate when I decide to swap brands.
As far as I an tell, having lots of devices online doesn't present a problem for me, though I have about 30 devices. RBS are all wired behind switches. v16 has been the most stable to date IMO.
superczar wrote:WIth the workaround mentioned (sticking to FW 2.1.4.16), the system has been reasonably stable of late.
Regarding the other suggestions on the switches, I am not using any energy savings settings on the switches.
All devices were brought new and they have gone through multiple full resets for any old setting to have any detrimental impact.
I have no complaints regarding the speed, roaming behavior and performance.
The system does indeed work better than any other router/AP I have used when it works.
However I do maintain the firmware has some deep rooted flaws.
If I hadn't plonked so much money on this system already and if I could start again, I would have looked at something else.
Most people who have a reasonably simple network will not notice issues - but if your use case includes larger than usual number of devices or a lot of LAN traffic, there is a good likelihood you will run into problems.
I have a little over 70 although majority are IoT devices with minimal traffic - not sure if this has anything to do with number of devices anyway.
I did some rewiring on my network last month (although nothing to do with this issue) and now there are 2X TP Link SG108e switches on the network
Ok well, seesm that these swiches mention Green Ethernet on the overview but nothing said in the specs.
https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/8-port-switch/tl-sg108e/#specifications
Sounds like this works with Orbi AC for the most part.
I would mark your thread as solves so others will know.
superczar wrote:I have a little over 70 although majority are IoT devices with minimal traffic - not sure if this has anything to do with number of devices anyway.
I did some rewiring on my network last month (although nothing to do with this issue) and now there are 2X TP Link SG108e switches on the network
These are standard unmanaged switches althogh with some additional features like a webUI and support for VLAN tagging.
I do maintain that this has nothing to do with switches as one of the reasons I got these switches (as a replacement for the older dumb gigabit switches ) was to see if it helps with the issues - although obviously it didn't.
In any case, today's discussion triggered me to switch over to the Voxel CFW.
It's running stable although still too early to comment (Been just a few hours)
I doubt that this will be any worse than default though.
superczar wrote:In any case, today's discussion triggered me to switch over to the Voxel CFW.
It's running stable although still too early to comment (Been just a few hours)
I doubt that this will be any worse than default though.
Let me know how the Voxel firmware works out. Sometimes 3rd party firmware offers better and faster support and fixes over the actual manufacturer firmware. DD-WRT is that way. Every modem we installed that supported it, got the latest stable firmware becuse it was so much better.
I wish DD-WRT would come up with Orbi firmware, because their Netgear version firmware was great.
