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Ethernet ports not working when internet is down
I have a orbi RBR50 setup on ppoe (we have CL) we had a internet outage the other day and during the outage we noticed that the lan ports did not seem to be working. We have a fire tv recast on our ne...
- If you run a Ethernet cable from from the orbi back to the modem and use one of the lan ports you can access the modem GUI to monitor your dsl stats so you would have 2 Ethernet cables to and from the modem one in the wan and one in the lan
Yes I have it set up on transparent bridging, I had to take the gateway with built in modem and turn off transparent bridging and unplug the the orbi system and just use the gateway with built in modem. I do not have a double NAT. The gateway is a zyxel gateway C3000. I have changed the orbi login to 192.168.0.2 so that if I need to get into the gateway I can.
As an experiment, I unplugged the CAT6 cable from my cable modem to the WAN port of my Orbi RBR50, thus disabling connectivity to the internet. My local network continued to work, both wired and WiFi systems. I could still access my NAS storage, IP cameras, TiVo (local recordings and over-the-air TV broadcasts) and other local devices. I do not have a FireTV recast so perhaps it depends on the internet. I do have several FireTV sticks, which of course did not work since they could not access the Internet for streaming services.