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Considering Orbi RBK50 for home use
Hi, I am looking at buying Orbi RBK50 dual unit as new home wifi with BT Infinity Broadband.
I would welcome any recent experience from the community.
Looking at the Orbi tech manual, it has many...
st_shaw wrote:
graeallan wrote:
Thanks.
I have one network device that needs a static ip... Any experience of using static IP with Orbi?
G.
You can set an Address Reservation on Orbi, so Orbi's DHCP server will always assign the same IP to that device.
That answered a different question. The answer to the question posed is that Orbi has no issues with true static IPv4 addresses assigned on the devices (as opposed to reserved on the router). I have loads of devices with static addresses, and I prefer static to DHCP assigned addresses in general. Why deal with DHCP request traffic if you don't have to?
Thanks.
I have one network device that needs a static ip... Any experience of using static IP with Orbi?
G.
graeallan wrote:
Thanks.
I have one network device that needs a static ip... Any experience of using static IP with Orbi?
G.
You can set an Address Reservation on Orbi, so Orbi's DHCP server will always assign the same IP to that device.
st_shaw wrote:
graeallan wrote:
Thanks.
I have one network device that needs a static ip... Any experience of using static IP with Orbi?
G.
You can set an Address Reservation on Orbi, so Orbi's DHCP server will always assign the same IP to that device.
That answered a different question. The answer to the question posed is that Orbi has no issues with true static IPv4 addresses assigned on the devices (as opposed to reserved on the router). I have loads of devices with static addresses, and I prefer static to DHCP assigned addresses in general. Why deal with DHCP request traffic if you don't have to?
