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iPhone suddenly won't connect to Orbi
I've had a pair of Orbi RBK50s for about four years. Suddenly, this evening, my iPhone 11 stopped connecting to them. The iPhone shows that it's connected to 4G up at the top, but in the Wi-Fi settin...
kirkmc wrote:Barring a hardware problem with the iPhone, what could be going on with the Orbi?
There was a software update on the iPhone recently with a default setting to create "private" IP addresses rather than use the IP address of the actual WiFi adapter. If you have Access Control enabled, perhaps the Orbi is seeing the iPhone as a "new" device rather than one it knows about.