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Ethernet Backhaul is freezing up WiFi completely and kicking everyone off (RBR50) & (RBS50)
I have factory reset these both multiple times. I have tried to originally connect them wirelessly, and then shut off the Satellite, and plug it into ethernet, and then turn it back on. This locks up...
Have you tried simply waiting? Recognition of wired backhaul takes minutes, not seconds. It generally takes 5 minutes per satellite for my system to stabilize after starting up each wired satellite one at a time.
One theory is that wiring a satellite causes it to use the same LAN address simultaneously for both wired and wireless interfaces, resulting in the storm you see. But the system eventually figures out that it's wired and shuts off the wireless backhaul. This is just a theory, I don't know whether it's the true explanation.
Make sure you have IP address reservations set up for each satellite on the router.
Shouldn't have to reserve IP addresses for the satellites just because they're connected via a wired connection vs. a wireless connection. I just tried rebooting my satellite with a wired connection and it killed the whole network. Again. It is clearly an issue that Netgear needs to work on. I shouldn't have to keep resetting my satellites to get them to work properly. The interesting thing is that by rebooting satellite #2 with a wired connection caused satellite #1 to disconnect. As soon as I disconnected the wired connection on satellite #2, they both re-connected via wireles and all was working again.
Still better than Asus AImesh. That was a huge dumpster fire. Orbi is just a small trash can fire. Hopefully this can be fixed with a firmware update.
Wow. What a terrible terrible system. I just wrote a whole thing about trying to dewire everything but the satellite, and reboot, and that didn't work. And then it actually crashed out my LAN and also keeps saying the Password on Wifi was wrong, even though it was saved and worked fine on the Router. (SO I lost my entire post, yeah my fault for writing it on the site ;) )
I then restored the Satellite back to factory settings and tried that, and it looked like it worked but... Nope, even after leaving it alone for 15 minutes. Additionally it completely hosed the LAN also. my laptop lost it's ip address, and I couldn't renew one. Just wow.
This "feature" should be removed, as it is worse in its current state than just telling people it doesn't have it.
I will see if I can get into the "beta" to see if it is better. It has been such a waste of time that I have started looking at the Linksys Velop.
At this point I am going to leave it as a Wifi Backhaul. And I should send Netgear a bill for all the hours I have wasted on this terrible implementation.