I installed my RBK53 about 10 days ago. Out of the box experience has been good in the sense that I setup the same SSID as my old Netgear router and all devices automatically connected. My two satellites are both connected directly to the router (according to the "Attached devices" page in the advanced admin) and all connected devices, wireless or wired seem to work fine.
It happened twice in the last week (so pretty infrequently) that the Internet does not work anymore. I tried from multiple devices and all simply time out when requesting an Internet page. I know the wifi is working because I could easily connected to the admin page of the router, login and see a list of attached devices. The router also shows a public IP and DNS as provided by Comcast.
I tried two different solutions and both worked. The first time I assumed it was the cable internet, so I restarted the cable modem (an Arris), the second time, to compare outcomes, I soft rebooted Orbi from the admin page. In both cases the Internet came back as soon as the boot cycle was completed.
Unrelated to the Internet issue, an unpleasant side effect of the reboot of Orbi is that my old Netgear router stopped working. The router is a Netgear that I use for the additional Ethernet ports and for the Readyshare storage. Disconnecting the Ethernet port and reconnecting didn't fix it, restarting the old router and then re-applying the Readyshare configuration with no changes did fix the problem.
