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mr_taint
Sep 17, 2020Aspirant
Everything works...except Netflix (Orbi RBR50 v2)
I'm an IT Professional, and my buddy hit me up the other day having an issue with his new home WiFi setup. Turns out he got an RBR50 v2, and a Satellite.
Everything working just great -- no problems. Except one. Netflix won't work. Throws error:
tvq-st-106
In his case, this is on any of several Gen 2 Amazon fire sticks that he has in his house.
I tried to troubleshoot it with him the other day, to no avail, and went over there today, and left unsuccessful.
Everything else works fine, and without issue, only Netflix giving him grief. I tested on my laptop on the WiFi -- no dice. The site loads, but none of the images do, and sometimes you can get a video to start, but it always craps out pretty quickly.
I hooked up wired to his Orbi -- same thing. I hooked up straight to his modem, and it worked fine, everything loaded as expected. What's even weirder though, is I tried DMZ'ing one of his Fire sticks, and it still doesn't work. The "Armor" or whatever it's called security is disabled. I tried several different DNS options, but none of them made a difference going through the router.
I also tried:
Toggling WMM on and off
IPV6 set to disabled
Turned off DoS attack protection
Guest network is diabled, checking the access control and all devices are set to allowed. uPnP is on, and again, literally everything else internet related works fine. (Firesticks stream other video just fine, PS4's work and can play online, Websites load normally, etc.)
FWIW he's using an Arris SB8200 (also new) and his ISP is WOW! in SE Michigan. He said he factory reset it the other day (I ran out of time today and didn't have a chance to try this myself).
I'm just at a total loss. I thought it could be some weird IPv6 issue but again, that reports as disabled in the only IPV6 menu I could find. He's on the latest firmware (AFAIK -- it ends in .16 and looked to be the same as the most current one on the Netgear site, up since April).
Orbi correctly ID's his Amazon Firesticks, and they're designated as media streaming devices. Parental controls are disabled, all blocking is turned off, etc.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm at a complete and utter loss for ideas. I even talked to my boss, because I know he's set up a few of these things, and he said only thing he's ever had an issue with was getting Satellite's recognized. Again, I was operating 10 ft. from the main Orbi router, and tried on wireless, wired, and straight from modem. Only worked from the modem, although after I started a Netflix show on the modem, I unplugged my wired connection to it, reverted to WiFi, and it was able to continue playing -- apparently without issue.
Again, I just have no clue what the issue could be. It smells like DNS, but the DNS settings that worked straight from the modem are what's currently the setting on the router for DHCP (from WOW!), and I also tried adding in ye old 8.8.8.8 and that made no differnce.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
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- MstrbigMaster
Regarding the Firesticks, do all the other apps work, but just no Netflix?
Is your friend using WOW's DNS servers or third party?
If everythin is working except Netflix, it would point to a Netflix issue.
Check this page for a possible solution:
- mr_taintAspirant
Yes, all other apps working.
Tried WOW DNS & 3rd party -- no difference.
Like I said (sorry if I wasn't clear enough) -- I tried on my laptop as well. Same thing, wouldn't load images -- literally shows all the links, and text, etc, but just no images. The top of the main page displays preview video but no other thumbnails show up. More importantly, works when I go around the router (straight to modem) -- so the problem is with the Orbi one way or another.
Unfortunately I've very much already seen the link you shared -- for fire sticks, it just suggests "make sure you're connected to the internet" and "restart your home network" (tragically laughable on both unfotunately).
Oh one thing I did forget to mention -- running the network test through the Netflix app on firestick results in all passing (green checkmarks).
Very confusing. Also tried uninstalling/reinstalling Netflix on the firestick (even though symptoms are exhibited on totally different types of devices, e.g. my laptop), clearing data, clearing cache, etc.
A real head scratcher.
- tucsonticoVirtuoso
mr_taint wrote:Yes, all other apps working.
Tried WOW DNS & 3rd party -- no difference.
Like I said (sorry if I wasn't clear enough) -- I tried on my laptop as well. Same thing, wouldn't load images -- literally shows all the links, and text, etc, but just no images. The top of the main page displays preview video but no other thumbnails show up. More importantly, works when I go around the router (straight to modem) -- so the problem is with the Orbi one way or another.
Unfortunately I've very much already seen the link you shared -- for fire sticks, it just suggests "make sure you're connected to the internet" and "restart your home network" (tragically laughable on both unfotunately).
Oh one thing I did forget to mention -- running the network test through the Netflix app on firestick results in all passing (green checkmarks).
Very confusing. Also tried uninstalling/reinstalling Netflix on the firestick (even though symptoms are exhibited on totally different types of devices, e.g. my laptop), clearing data, clearing cache, etc.
A real head scratcher.
Hmmm. This is very weird. I'm not an IT guy so if I make a suggestion that you've already tried excuse my novice approach:
1) Are you 100% certain that the satellite and router have the exact same firmware version? (2.5.1.16 is most recent "well known" firmware but another has been recently released.) This may not be the issue but I've seen very stange things happen if the router and satellite aren't on the same firmware.
2) Have you done a factory reset and re-initialize the system from scratch? (I know you shouldn't have to do this but it seems to clear up similar issues.)
3) If the ORBI is new, it might be bad hardware. Hopefully under warranty.
Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.