My Mesh wifi system keeps kicking off my devices. It happens mostly with Apple devices (iPhone and iPad running the latest OS)
My home has 3 floors and I have one device covering each floor, backhaul wired connection with every satellite, everything looks perfect but still the system randomly kicks my devices of the network. I can reconnect again only after many attempts.
I have around 65 devices total connected to the system (many smart home devices) and 1Gigabit FIOS connection. I am using the guest network for the smart home devices mostly. Latest firmware version.
I really don't know what else to try, and I am already thinking of throwing the system away and buying a Velop.
I've put some time and effort into this, and it looks like it's some sort of issue with DNS that happens when device is "handed off" between the router and satellite.
I got a BETA version of the router software, and that SEEMED to fix it for a bit; but lately it's back with a vengance.
It APPEARS (but I need to do some more testing to verify) that it ONLY happens when the ORBI is used as a DNS. I have my own internal DNS servers; but am letting the ORBI "hand out" itrself as a "caching DNS". I'm gonna try to revert back later this week and verify the issue goes away, will keep posted!
Interesting - are you using DCHP? What domain server(s) is your Orbi "advertising"?
If "hard code" Google as a domain service on my iPhone, the disconnects/reconnects go away; but that messes up some internal server access I need, so, I have to (re)implement internal DNS servers before I can test this "long tern:
You know for a setup like your's look at Unifi gear. You will get much better mileage out of those and it offers decent set of controls. Pair it with a pfsense firewall and you get amazing control over your network
