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mkfein
Aug 02, 2019Star
WiFi Slow after 2-3 days until reboot?
I'm really at my wits end fighting with this Orbi System. I've read all the relevant forum posts I could find and am still struggling. I have 200 Mb/s service from Xfinity. Orbi RBR50 is connecte...
fmalloy
Dec 03, 2020Luminary
Geddy007 I just disconnected the WiFi USB dongle and the Samsung Smart TV WiFI - no change in the speed. I believe you said you had to reboot the router - so you didn't see the speed improvement right after the disconnections? Did you confirm the reboot was required?
Geddy007
Dec 03, 2020Aspirant
Yes, I had to reboot the router after disconnecting the smart TV. After that, it has stayed fast for me for months after that and didn't drop every few days any more.
- southbay82Dec 03, 2020Aspirant
For the tech saavy on this thread who don't want to shell out another $400 for network gear.
A weekly reboot does the trick. I have a raspberry pi at home, and setup a script to execute on the crontab and it's worked like a charm for a month. This script will log an entry to the system log with the prefix "[orbi]" if you wanted to see any history.
Crontab Entry - I keep this script in /opt/scripts/orbi, you can store it where you like.
#Sunday
30 6 * * 0 /opt/scripts/orbi/invoke-reboot-orbi.shBash script below, found this on github and slightly modified.
#!/bin/sh
#Parameters
ROOT_DIR=/opt/scripts/orbi
USER_PASS="your password"
LOGGER_TAG="[orbi]"
logger -t $LOGGER_TAG "Rebooting Orbi...."#Clear previous cookie
rm $ROOT_DIR/orbi.cookie 2>/dev/null
rm $ROOT_DIR/reboot.htm 2>/dev/null#Authenticate, get cookie, and token
wget -O $ROOT_DIR/reboot.htm --user admin --password $USER_PASS --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies $ROOT_DIR/orbi.cookie "http://192.168.1.1/reboot.htm"#Parse token
temp_token=$(grep "apply" $ROOT_DIR/reboot.htm | cut -d"=" -f4 | cut -d "\"" -f1)
echo "temp_token = $temp_token"#Execute the reboot
wget -O $ROOT_DIR/result --user admin --password $USER_PASS --load-cookies $ROOT_DIR/orbi.cookie --post-data "submit_flag=reboot&yes=Yes" "http://192.168.1.1/apply.cgi?/reboot_waiting.htm timestamp=$temp_token"#Cleanup
rm $ROOT_DIR/orbi.cookie 2>/dev/null
rm $ROOT_DIR/reboot.htm 2>/dev/null
#rm $ROOT_DIR/result 2>/dev/null#Touch tracker
touch $ROOT_DIR/last_run#Return to previous path
exit 0- fmalloyDec 03, 2020Luminary
Thanks for this, however it's sad that something like this is needed.
- jeremyblewisDec 03, 2020Aspirant
I've experienced the same issues described in this thread, namely my WiFi connections slowing to ~40 Mbps every week or so. However, the issue disappeared after updating my firmware to v2.7.0.70 about two months ago.
https://kb.netgear.com/000062320/RBR50-RBS50-Firmware-Version-2-7-0-70