OBI with Netgear Orbi router - call quality

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SteveInWA:
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As an experiment I'll temporarily plug the OBI into the cable modem in
place of the router. That will remove all the competition from other
devices, and also exonerate the Orbi router of any blame. Then if the
quality is still bad it can only be the OBI itself or the Comcast
connection.


Don't you still have some older/other router you can use to test?  Plugging a device directly into the cable modem may cause a problem:  If you don't first release the DHCP lease that your router has with Comcast, they may not permit a direct connection to a device with a different MAC address.  I'm not a Comcast customer, so I don't know how they deal with this (they might either have the DHCP lease expire frequently, or you might have to contact them or use a web portal to renew the lease).  Of course, using a different router would still present a different MAC address to Comcast, but at least you could get into the router's menu to attempt to release/renew the lease.

Tangible2:
I was previously using a leased Comcast gateway combo modem and router, which I gave back to them. I should have an old Linksys WRT somewhere with the VCRs and such. I'll take a look.

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