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Disable auto change IP address
I've seen similar posts about a way to disable the auto change IP address before. They've been brushed off. The 'answers' and 'solutions' are wrong. There is an issue with the product. Every month wh...
CrimpOn wrote:
Have you done a "total factory reset" on the Orbi?
If the Orbi is going into Bridge Mode or changing its own LAN side address from 10.99.99.1, then something is VERY WRONG.
I completely agree. Actually, the morning of my original post, I did a factory reset. It will be another 26 days before I get my regular reset hit.
I was aggravated enough because it was flipping IPs fast enough I couldn't catch it sitting still long enough to manually set the IP again. I didn't care if I had to re-do my configs. If the Orbi loses its mind again this month, I'm simply going to throw in the towel and replace it.
Please post what happens the next time your modem resets. I had no idea that a router would detect address conflicts on the WAN side. I had thought it saw conflicts only when responding to DHCP requests on the LAN side (that the router is handing out).