My orbi system (RBR50 with 2 RBS50) has been great, it provides strong and reliable wifi everywhere but recently a major bug has been troubling me. The system will randomly drop LAN communication between segments. Example: devices connected to Satellite 1 (both wired/wireless) won't be able to ping devices on Satellite 2 (or vice versa) or sometimes devices on Satellite 2 won't be able to ping devices the Router and vice versa.
I have tried all suggestions, factory resetting, disabling armour and circle, setting ip reservations for all devices, setting a wifi channel and loading voxel firmware. So far loading voxel firmware has decreased this problem significantly but it is still there.
This issue will happen at random but if I put stress on the network, such as streaming from a camera, the lan will break down. When this happens everything usually recovers within a minute unlike when it happens randomly. (such as in the middle of the night) This is very frustrating due to my use of many IOT devices that rely on talking to my server. A guaranteed way of recovering the network is restarting a or all satellite(s).
Does anybody know of a solution or some recommendations?
What is the size of your home? Sq Ft? What is the distance between the router and satellite(s)? 30 feet or more is recommended in between RBR and RBS to begin with depending upon building materials when wirelessly connected. https://kb.netgear.com/31029/Where-should-I-place-my-Orbi-satellite
My orbi system (RBR50 with 2 RBS50) has been great, it provides strong and reliable wifi everywhere but recently a major bug has been troubling me. The system will randomly drop LAN communication between segments. Example: devices connected to Satellite 1 (both wired/wireless) won't be able to ping devices on Satellite 2 (or vice versa) or sometimes devices on Satellite 2 won't be able to ping devices the Router and vice versa.
I have tried all suggestions, factory resetting, disabling armour and circle, setting ip reservations for all devices, setting a wifi channel and loading voxel firmware. So far loading voxel firmware has decreased this problem significantly but it is still there.
This issue will happen at random but if I put stress on the network, such as streaming from a camera, the lan will break down. When this happens everything usually recovers within a minute unlike when it happens randomly. (such as in the middle of the night) This is very frustrating due to my use of many IOT devices that rely on talking to my server. A guaranteed way of recovering the network is restarting a or all satellite(s).
Does anybody know of a solution or some recommendations?
Will do. However, i do still think it should be discussed here as it happens on stock netgear firmware as well. This was the reason i tried installing voxel. When I installed voxel it helped a lot, but the issue is still there.
The arris box has a model number of "CM8200" It really shouldnt be doing anything as its just a cable modem.
I agree that brick walls can cause instability, and that could be the issue, But due to them having a good backhaul signal i don’t think that’s the issue. I also believe this because it only happens to some devices, and not all of them at the same time which makes me to think its something else. Other then this, the system is great. No I have not tried powerline ethernet.
I would turn off all RBS and all wired and wireless devices. Maybe change the SSID name to something different temporarily. Then test with just the RBR alone with a wired PC. I'd check some pings between the PC and RBR. Check pings between the PC with the ISP Modem alone with out the RBR. Then add a RBS and check pings at the RBR again. Add any additional RBS while checking pings. Check stability. Change the SSID name back to what you had it at. Check stability again. Then add a wired device and check stability. Might see if you notice anything while graduating adding devices.
I have noticed when doing all of this is removing all my reserved IPs, except for some that’s needed, *seems* to have solved it. Such a strange issue as i thought reserved ips help the routers stability. Any ideas? Possibly a syncing issue between the satillites? I have resynced the satillites many times though.
Possbible conflict in reserved IPs vs dynamic maybe? You might start adding a IP address reservervation, one at a time, and see if the problem reappears. Be sure you reboot your devices after you apply the reservation on the RBR and the RBR gets rebooted as well.
I recommend setting a IP address reservation on the RBS as well. First thing I do when I set up a Orbi system.
> I recommend setting a IP address reservation on the RBS as well. First thing I do when I set up a Orbi system.
Yup, same here.
> Possible conflict in reserved IPs vs dynamic maybe?
When i pinged the device from my PC (on a seperate sattilite) i got "request timed out" indicating it wasn't taken by another device. When i moved to the router i got pings back. Intresting.
I also have set my DCHP range to start at 100 so there shouldnt be any conflicts. I tried removing some of my devices from the reserved list, and setting them statically on device instead, out of DCHP range, which is what seemed to have helped. Its a stange issue.
No no, as in the device moved it’s wifi connection from the “upstairs” satellite to the main router. I could see the device changing the connected access point bssid in its logs right before it couldn’t communicate with devices on the “downstairs” satellite.
As I said before, a reboot of the “upstairs” satellite fixes it, which I find strange.
Update - Changing the RTS/CTS to 500 has greatly improved everything. Once I have done that everything has been rock solid.
However, after I added ~40 ip reservations the network broke down. I removed most of them but kept 17 and the network has gone back to being rock solid (so far)
I will start slowly adding reservations to see what the limit is, it’s quite a strange issue.
When the devices IP is set on the device itself, out of the dchp range, the network is still stable. I have tested this with ~20 devices and the network is stable, it’s just when I add those reservations on the router itself.
I wonder if I should try using adguard home as my dchp server. What do you think?
