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Orbi looses Internet for a while on iPads and iPhones, while WiFi stays on
Hi, my iPhones and iPads are loosing Internet connection every once a while, remaining connected to Wifi. The indicator shows full signal, so it's weird. The connection restores after appr. a minute. Turn WiFi off and back on on the device helps immediately - therefore I guess, it is Orbi and not the cable router. Today I have a lenghtly WhatsApp voice call (appr. 45 min) and connection disappeared three times and came back again. Somehow my laptops and my wired connected desktop seem not to have any issues. Any idea? BTW. I am pretty sure to have the latest firmware.Orbi dropping internet connection but seems to be only iphone and ipad
Base problem seems to be with iphone and ipad, but its a pile of crazy inconsistent things happening. This has been happening for at least a week, maybe 2. Most often I lose wifi connection to the Orbi router or satellite as when I look in the iphone or ipad wifi settings the Orbi network will display "no internet connectIon". Sometimes turning the wifi setting off and on it will eventually connect. Sometimes there is "no internect connection" and then it magically is ok. The ipad and iphone are on the current IOS as I write this. During this period of issues, I had one time rebooted the base and once or twice I resynced the satellites. Meanwhile, other devices seem to be connected to the orbi system when I get the "no internet connected" on the iphone or ipad. For example, we can check a laptop that is connected to the Orbi network that is another room away from where I was sitting and it had no problem with the orbi network. For example, right now. The base has a solid magenta led ring. This base is plugged into an ethernet outlet in the room and then in the wiring cabinet the cable is plugged into the xfinity modem. I'm next to the base with my iphone. My iphone shows I'm connected to the Orbi network. I run the Speedtest app and it gives me over 200mbps. All good. Then I go to the Orbi app on the iphone and it can't find the orbi. I killed the app and restarted it, but same issue. So why does my iphone have good speedtest but the Orbi app can't find the Orbi!!!! Last night I ran the Orbi app on my ipad. It shows the base but says 0 satellites, but there are 2 of them in the house so I wonder what's up with them. Before I continue writting this post, I'm going to reboot the base as the orbi app can't connect to the base nor my browser as I can't tell you the current firmware on the system. So now that the orbi is rebooted. The orbi app shows 0 satellites. I see the base is firmware 2.1.2.18 and check updates says its up to date. Now I go to satellite #1. There is no led ring lit on top. I turn off the power and then back on. Eventuallly the ring is solid magenta. I go to satellite #2, with no led ring lit on top. Power off and on and then eventually the ring is solid magenta. Now I press the sync button on the base and then sync button on satellite #1 and then #2, but by the time I get to #2 the led ring is solid blue. I had wondered if it should automatically sync a satellite if the satellite is powered off and on. So now the orbi app shows 2 satellites. The rebooting and syncing I did now I had done a couple days ago but still the problems persisited. Besides asking for help on this problem I have a question and maybe this will avoid the problem I am having: My home has ethernet outlets in each room. Originally I just plugged the base and each satellite into an ethernet outlet. Then I could plug additional devices into the Orbi satellites. What I recall; I noticed was that searching for wifi showed 3 Orbi's vs 1. My neighbor is a network guy and he said I should not plug the satellites into the ethernet outlets and let them talk to the base wirelessly and he had me change from Router Mode to AP Mode and set the radio button to "get dynamically from existing routher". So for better connectivity between the base and the satellites or just better connections and having just one SSID, can I go back to connecting the satellites to ethernet outlets in the rooms and then what settings to I setup on the base? Thanks!iTunes backup to ReadyNAS How-To Guide for Windows
iTunes for Windows creates backups for iPhones and other Apple devices in the following Windows folder: "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync" where %APPDATA is a Windows Environment setting. To examine what this resolves to on your computer, open a command prompt "Start Menu -> Run -> Command" and type in "dir %APPDATA%" and the following will be returned to you (assuming your Windows user name is "Dad"): C:\Users\Dad>dir %APPDATA% Volume in drive C is HP Volume Serial Number is xxxx-xxxxx Directory of C:\Users\Dad\AppData\Roaming This means that Windows is pointing to "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming". NOTE: The actual path will vary with different versions of Windows. I am backing up an ancient Windows Vista machine now before trashing it, so that is my path. In order to tell iTunes to backup to your ReadyNAS, you have to trick iTunes into believing the NAS is actually a local hard disk location. This is done by setting up a symbolic link or junction in Windows. To do this, follow these steps: 1) determine where your "APPDATA" path is using the instructions above. 2) attach your NAS to Windows as though it were a network drive. To do this, use the "net use" command in a command prompt window. a) Open a command prompt window with special adminstrative rights. "Start->Run->type "Command"->right-click on "command prompt" and select "Run as Adminstrator". This will open a black screen with special rights, and a "c prompt" (C:\>) my ancient Windows Vista command prompt (yours will be similar but much newer): 3) type the following command: net use Z:\ "\\<readynas name or IP address>\data" /user:admin "type the admin password here in quotes" /PERSISTENT:YES This will make your Z drive the ReadyNAS box. The "/PERSISTENT:YES" part at the end means the drive will show up every time you log in and have full admin rights to the NAS. If you leave that off, it will only be attached when you run the "net use" command and will go away when you reboot. 4) Create a folder on your ReadyNAS to save the iTunes backup. I created "RawBackups\iTunes\<windows user>" for each of my users Note: The instructions that follow should probably be done after logging in as the user you are setting up. For example, if you are the PC admin, but your child backs up their iPhone under their login name, log out and log back in under the child's login. When you open the command prompt with "Run as Administrator" rights, you'll be able to complete the following steps. Logging in under the child will increase the likelyhood that any rights Windows automatically sets are correct (but each version of Windows is a little different here). 5) In Windows Explorer, navigate to "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming" and rename the folder ""C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roamingxxx" or something so it still exists but iTunes won't point to it. (Be sure you do not have iTunes running!) 6) in the Command Prompt, create an operating system link to your ReadyNAS to replace the above folder: mklink /d "C:\Users\<windows user>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync" "Z:\RawBackups\iTunes\<windows user>\MobileSync" You will see the following if this is successful: "symbolic link created for C:\Users\<windows user>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync <<===>> Z:\RawBackups\iTunes\<windows user>\MobileSync If you're lucky ;) your PC will be telling iTunes that the ReadyNAS backup location is located on your local hard disk in the place it wants to look. Then go through the normal iTunes backup for your iPhone, iPad, etc. Good luck! Note: to examine which symbolic directory links exist before or after this procedure, run this in a command prompt: 1) type "cd c:\" then "enter". This will move you to the root C drive 2) type dir /al /s | findstr "<SYMLINKD>" and hit enter. This should show that you have redirected the MobileSync directory to the NAS device.
NETGEAR EX7000 Connection Problems
Hello Guys, i have a big issue with my Range Extender* ( EX7000). (I'm connected to the 2GEXT.) The problem is that my Labtop, Computer connects fine to the RE* ... but my other devices like my PS4, Iphone , IPad have Problems with the Connection. I solved the Problem on the I/phone/pad by typing the CLIENT-ID manually in the WLAN Settings from the RE. But on the PS4 i can't connect to the RE. I tested it via LAN and WLAN Connection.. FAILED.. But when i connect to the main WIFI Connection everything works fine.. Also tried to reset the RE Device.. same result. I also have Problems to connect on http://mywifiext.net/. My Internet explorer tells me ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT while i'm connected to the RE Device... Can anybody help me or have the same Problem with the RE EX7000 ? Thanks Rufii
