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Intermittent internet connectivity outage with Orbi?
I just installed my new Orbi router yesterday, replacing a Nighthawk R8500. I believe that overall wireless coverage has improved, though top-end performance is not quite as high (measured via fast....
I read in the other "Ring Door Bell" thread that a customer had better results after disabling "Enable Implicit BEAMFORMING". So I tried that just to see what happens. It's probably too early to tell yet, but my 2 Nest cameras have only disconnected once in the past 2 days and I think that's because there was a power outage at my house today (I wasn't home and both cameras went out at the same time, something the intermittent outages haven't done).
They are just listed as unknown like many of my other devices.
I have several nest cams and everyone one of them has been going offline every hour or so. This is definitely something netgear needs to address. Tried rebooting the orbi, the modem, and even reinstalling the nest cams. All to no avail. The speed of my Eero was not as fast, but at least it stayed connected.
I looked at the Tech specs of the Nest cameras it says it can connect to both 2.4 and 5ghz networks I am wondering that maybe it keeps switching between those networks on the orbi with its band steering feature and it is causing the drop. So question is can you set your Nest cams to use only 1 of the wireless bands?
DarrenM
I am getting the most drops and quick pick back ups from devices that are dual band. Most of them have no way of telling them not to use one of the bands (xbox one, which I believe is an N device, Nexus Player, which is an AC device, Ipad Air, which is a MIMO N device, etc.) For a while there I was getting a lot of drops from a laptop that could only do 2.4 Ghz though.
Hello everyone
Can you guys provided me the model number of your nest cams that are having this issue we are looking into testing the problem.
Thanks
DarrenM
