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Anybody know how can I convert a rbr40 router into a satellite on a meshh where the router is RBR50
Anybody know how can I convert a rbr40 router into a satellite on a meshh where the router is RBR50? I tried to add the RBR40 to the mesh I have but didn't work. Thanks
Martes04 wrote:Anybody know how can I convert a rbr40 router into a satellite on a meshh where the router is RBR50?
I tried to add the RBR40 to the mesh I have but didn't work. Thanks
Netgear designed the Orbi product so that routers are only routers and satellites are only satellites.
There is a hack that people claim can convert an RBR50 into an RBS50.
There may be a similar process that will work with the RBR40.
Apart from turning the Orbi into a paperweight, what do you have to lose?
(In my case, I have a second Orbi router "just in case" my primary Orbi router fails.)
I believe you need RBR40 hacked FW do do that on the 40 series, which doesn't seem to be any version for the 40 series. The hack they have currently is only for the 50 series. So i would avoid trying to convert the 40 series.
