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notimportant199
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Feb 05, 2020

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...
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CrimpOn
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Feb 05, 2020
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?