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Ethernet Backhaul kills LAN traffic *partly*
Hi,
my issue is not really the same than the one in the "Ethernet Backhaul kills LAN" topic, so I decided to open a separate topic for it.
My RBR40 router + RBS40 satellite were working w...
Thanks for the picture. This helps greatly. I would have lead of with this.
Understanding more now, Can you try taking both switches out of the mix, connecting the STBs, 1 to the router and 1 to the satellite while you have the Satellite wired directly to the router. No switches in the mix. Need to rule out the switches.
I would then try both STBs connected to the router with out connected to the satellite.
Hopefully you will see something change...
Let us know the results....
What are the Mfr and model#s of the switches in use?
Ok, so I basically reverted to the blue cabling in the living room, but the cable from port 2 of the RBS40 goes into the STB directly rather than into the LAN switch. Same in the sleeping room, where I unplugged the cable from the LAN switch and plugged it into the STB directly.
There is a 3rd LAN switch that I didn't include in my drawing. It's also connected to the RBR40 and connects devices in my home office room. I unplugged this switch as well. So basically the only LAN devices which are now connected are RBR40, RBS40 with direct LAN connection, STB in living room connected to RBS40, and STB in bedroom connected directly to the RBR40. Ethernet Backhaul is up and running.
With this setup, the issue is now gone!Glad too early - it just took a little longer for the issue to appear, but it's still there. So the LAN switches have no relation to the issue.Anyway, the LAN switches I'm using are:
- TP-Link TL-SG108 (living room, 8 ports)
- TP-Link TL-SG105 (home office, 5 ports)
- A pretty much no-name USB-powered LAN switch in the bedroom, see https://www.amazon.com/Black-Box-Network-Services-LGB304A/dp/B0148L7YI2
Any suggestions?
Any chance you can test with two wired PCs in place of the STBs to see if PCs do the same thing? Curious if this either could be a Orbi problem or a STB problem. If PCs do the same thing, then it would be a Orbi problem.
I would do try this, use IE11 or FF browser. Download the FW update file, you might try going back to v.10 version and manually load up the satellite first, then the router. After it's applied do a full ERASE on the satellite and router and set up from scratch. Add the satellite via wireless first, then connect the LAN cable for wired back haul and give it time to configure and the top led to turn on BLUE. Then connect the STBs or PCs again in the same manor you just tested with out the switches. See if the problem continues. If it does, I would presume there could be an issue with the Orbi system.
Testing with 2 PCs would be kind of complicated because I would need to do something that continuously streams data from one system to the other. And it's pretty much pointless because even if the issue would not occur with PCs, it wouldn't change the fact that with the STBs the issue is gone once I remove the Ethernet Backhaul'ed RBS40 from the network and configure it back to WiFi Backhaul.
Resetting the RBR40 back to default is something that I'm not willing to do. It took me quite some while to get it running the way I wanted it, mainly because of lots of IP adress reservations. So I rather revert back to WiFi Backhaul and might give it another try with the next firmware.
Thanks anyway!