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Intermittent DNS Errors and WiFi Issues
I have had the Orbi AX6000 for a few months now. While there are many things I love about it (great wifi coverage, great speed, looks nice, software, ease of setup, etc.), there are two very frustra...
I have the same issues - and they are NOT related to DHCP. If I change the DNS manually on the devices to ignore the Orbi DNS resolver, and use either my provider modem or just straight to Google or CloudFlare DNS, everything works SWIMMINGLY. I LOVE my signal coverage, and the flexibility of the mesh. I LOVE the speeds I get...but DNS...just SUCKS.
And what's worse is that there are NO DHCP OPTIONS on the Orbi to set DNS for clients to use something else. I turned off Armor because I thought maybe it was burping on DNS lookups while it checked to see if the site was 'ok' or not.
And it fails on sites like YOUTUBE, for crying out loud. A wait of 5 seconds and a reload, and DNS lookups start working again, but depending on the device, app and local DNS caching of the bad response, it's a right pain in the rear end.
I'm thinking of setting up a pi-hole and enabling DHCP from that device JUST to get DNS resolvers to be anything BUT this device.
Problem was CONSTANT with 3.2.15.5 - just upgraded to .16.6 - crossing my fingers that this is fixed....but GOD this bug is irritating as hell.
