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notimportant199
Feb 05, 2020Follower
Connections to local network not working across Orbi router and satellites
Hello Everyone, I got the RBK33 [1], which includes one orbi router and two wall-plugin satellites. [1] https://www.netgear.com/orbi/rbk33.aspx After setting it up, wifi & internet both work...
CrimpOn
Feb 05, 2020Guru - Experienced User
notimportant199 wrote:When I move laptop A closer to the router, causing it to connect to the router rather than the satellite,then the RDP connection works just fine. It appears that devices can't communicate with each other unless they're both connected to the same Orbi device).
If you allow ping requests on the Windows laptops (https://kb.iu.edu/d/aopy ) can you ping one machine from the other (in both directions)? Does ping also appear to be sensitive to where the laptops are located?