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AmitR
Dec 05, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Announcing availability of OrbiOS 2.1
We’re excited to announce that OrbiOS 2.1 is now available for immediate download here: https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RBK50.aspx#download https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RBK40.asp...
dmw_2
Jan 07, 2018Guide
Having been a very early adopter of 2.1.1.16 and experiencing a lot of wifi disconnections I decided to wait a day or so before upgrading to the beta software. Just over 24 hours ago I upgraded as follows RBR50 to 2.1.2.10, RBS50 (2) to 2.1.2.10 and RBW30 (1) to 2.1.2.2. Everything seemed rock solid so I decided to try the ethernet backhaul to one of my RBS50 satellites. Within moments of plugging an ethernet cable into one of the LAN ports of the satellite and the other end into a remote switch located near the satellite the network just went into a cycle of crashing, coming back up, crashing etc. I have a number of IP cameras both on the LAN and remote (on iSPY) and they were streaming video, then disconnected, coming back and then disconnecting again. I waited 15 minutes to see if things would settle down but then gave up and disconnected the ethernet cable. After about 5 minutes and a power cycle of the RBR50 things returned to normal. I see from this thread that others seem to be using ethernet backhaul without any issues. I haven't found any instructions saying there is some particular way to connect the RBS50 to the RBR50 via the LAN so can anyone shed any light on what I am doing wrong?
tagteam
Jan 07, 2018Virtuoso
Not sure whether or not it will be of much utility to you, but a Netgear support article on the subject is at the link below.
- Bing-StrollerJan 07, 2018LuminaryI had similar problems with crashing and random reboots when I tried the ethernet backhaul (between 2 satellites) on a reasonably stable setup.
Appreciate the diagrams - thanks.
But, with no clear guidance on how to get to that stage it's all guess work.
i.e sync everything and then connect or switch on in a particular sequence after connecting.
It's all trial and in my case - error/crash.- tagteamJan 07, 2018Virtuoso
Bing-Stroller wrote:
...But, with no clear guidance on how to get to that stage it's all guess work....It's unfortunate that even the user manual, which was just updated last month, doesn't provide more specificity.
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBK50/Orbi_UM_EN.pdf