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WARNING: Firmware 2.2.1.210 is junk
If you're dealing with poor WiFi performance, frequent disconnects and so on, you aren't alone, there are various other threads on this topic. Here's what you need to know:
Check if your Orbi...
My experience is that the wifi side of the router drops... You cannot connect to it from internal LAN and devices connected see the Internet as disconnected. However, if you set up a VPN on the router, you can connect to it from your mobile connection, so it's still connected, just but working on WiFi. A reboot temporarily fixes it, but I believe the problem might be related to Disney Circle. I had it enabled. I disabled it and reinstall the firmware. (Had to downgrade/upgrade). So far looks good. Will post updates on whether it stays stable.
It appears the problem is related to Disney Circle being enabled. Logging into the router from the Wifi side continually prompts for a password on every screen. I believe that's a symptom of the problem. Turning off Disney Circle seems to fix it without needing a reboot of the router.
- Circle was the problem for me too. Had tons of DNS timeouts. As soon as I disabled it everything has been great...
- Update: The problems with Disney Circle disappeared after I discovered and cleaned my son's laptop of several viruses I found. I have to assume his laptop was creating a DoS attack from within. After cleaning, no issues with Disney Circle. Could be coincidence, but nothing else I've tried had made a difference. Thought you should know.
Glad you found the problem. Good to see that its not always Orbi or Circle problems. :smileywink:
Pylesw wrote:
Update: The problems with Disney Circle disappeared after I discovered and cleaned my son's laptop of several viruses I found. I have to assume his laptop was creating a DoS attack from within. After cleaning, no issues with Disney Circle. Could be coincidence, but nothing else I've tried had made a difference. Thought you should know.
Pylesw wrote:
Update: The problems with Disney Circle disappeared after I discovered and cleaned my son's laptop of several viruses I found. I have to assume his laptop was creating a DoS attack from within. After cleaning, no issues with Disney Circle. Could be coincidence, but nothing else I've tried had made a difference. Thought you should know.
It's good to hear you identified the problem.
Even so Circle will reduce your network throghput by about half.
That's a pretty big hit for a service like this and IIRC I saw it on local LAN to local LAN communications too, that really shouldn't be the case.
Hi UnhappyOrbiUser
I'm having troubles with router constantly going offline (modem stays online rock solid as confirmed by conecting directly to modem, it is just the router for whatever reason decides it is offline all of a sudden). The only fix is to restart the router. This is on f/w 2.2.1.210 so I thought I'd try going back to 2.1.4.16 to see if it is any better.
Now I followed your and DUSTOFF2 instructions and while everything worked as described and I managed to easily install 2.1.4.16, the issue is that it automatically updated back to latest 2.2.1.210 in no time. It looks like it is not enough to zero nvram orbi_auto_upgrade, auto_check_for_upgrade and auto_update settings to diable auto-update. It will still auto-update to latest firmware regardless.
I'm puzzled how did this work for you on 2.2.1.210. These don't look to suppress auto-update. Any ideas please?
Thanks
