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Firmware 2.2.1.210 released as of 10/3/18
New firmware is available via the GUI ....
Let's hope for success.
Something else I would like to mention is that when my phone switches to a satellite from the router or from a satellite to the router my mobile app requires me to enter my password again to gain entry into the app. On top of that I must enter the password 3 times to gain entry..The first two times I enter my password it says its invalid and on the third try it will let me in. I'm certain that I'm entering my password correctly each time as well. It happens every time and on the third try it will let me in..This is on the mobile app and not the web interface.
Completed a full day of work...NO DISCONNECTS. I'm overjoyed. I was contemplating replacing my Orbi network with another router and satellite but after this update I am very satisfied. I hope that this continues and that all my colleagues in this forum with solve their issues and be as relieved as I am. Best of luck to all.
Thank you for letting us know. Enjoy. :smileywink:
Crestviewdoc wrote:
Completed a full day of work...NO DISCONNECTS. I'm overjoyed. I was contemplating replacing my Orbi network with another router and satellite but after this update I am very satisfied. I hope that this continues and that all my colleagues in this forum with solve their issues and be as relieved as I am. Best of luck to all.
System up and running for 8 hours today. Had 2 failures, both were "failed to locate IP address". Both failures recovered after logging on to RBR50. Have no idea why this is occurring.
My moden is a Arris SB6183. Desktop was connected directly to the RBR50 via ethernet cable and not using either Sats at the time.
Previous to this update (including Beta's) I had loss of internet problems, but not IP problem.
Was the modem powered off while doing a factory reset and setup from scratch, walking thru the set up wizard? I would try this.
Also If you updated to recent FW v.210, try enabling Daisy Chain. Some have mentioned that this seems to be working in reverse order, enabling means disabled actually.
jweise wrote:
My moden is a Arris SB6183. Desktop was connected directly to the RBR50 via ethernet cable and not using either Sats at the time.
Previous to this update (including Beta's) I had loss of internet problems, but not IP problem.
So try this out as well.A bit more on the daisy chain issue. It is not exactly a reverse order experience. With daisy chain OFF, I get poor backhaul but the connetions are not in a daisy chain topology, but in the star topology (hub and spolke). With daisy chain ON, I get good backhaul but the system is also operating (it says) in the star topology.
With daisy chain off, satelites keep dropping in and out ... you can watch the graphed signal strength like an animated whack-a-mole. With daisy chain on (but still in star topology) the satelites stay relatively steady in signal strength. Also strange is when I resync the satelites with daisy chain off, the system initially shows backhaul is good for a few minutes, but then shifts to poor.
5GHz backhaul is at Ch 157 in both cases on my setup.
I am also getting the irritating icon flash on Attached Devices exactly every three seconds. which was not present before the update.
Thanks for posting more information. This is something NG support can use to pass on to engineering to look into.
JoeCymru wrote:
A bit more on the daisy chain issue. It is not exactly a reverse order experience. With daisy chain OFF, I get poor backhaul but the connetions are not in a daisy chain topology, but in the star topology (hub and spolke). With daisy chain ON, I get good backhaul but the system is also operating (it says) in the star topology.
With daisy chain off, satelites keep dropping in and out ... you can watch the graphed signal strength like an animated whack-a-mole. With daisy chain on (but still in star topology) the satelites stay relatively steady in signal strength. Also strange is when I resync the satelites with daisy chain off, the system initially shows backhaul is good for a few minutes, but then shifts to poor.
5GHz backhaul is at Ch 157 in both cases on my setup.
I am also getting the irritating icon flash on Attached Devices exactly every three seconds. which was not present before the update.
Well I'll be, I enabled daisy chain and behold my devices are correctly showing which ones they are connected too. What an odd update. I still have the issue of the sattelites going magenta before going blue upon reboot but this time I think it was faster. Well lets see how my rbk23 will be today.
Good to hear. Ya, NG is looking into the behavior. I believe PINK will be seen before BLUE. As long as your getting BLUE then OFF, you should be good. Let it run for a while and see how it does.
RedBatman89 wrote:
Well I'll be, I enabled daisy chain and behold my devices are correctly showing which ones they are connected too. What an odd update. I still have the issue of the sattelites going magenta before going blue upon reboot but this time I think it was faster. Well lets see how my rbk23 will be today.
I would just like to say that I'm thinking the same thing. My system stays in star topography even when daisy chain is enabled. I don't think it's reversed, but there is some kind of bug when it's disabled. If I have daisy chain disabled I still get good backhaul connection with my satellites, but my devices will never switch to the satellites when sitting right next to them, or least it shows in the admin section that there not connected. Also it will show unknown for the connection type for anything that is connected to a satellite on the 5g band and it will say connected to "Orbi Satellite" instead of the custom name I gave the satellite for 5g connected devices. Anything connected to the satellite on the 2.4g band will report correctly. Something else I noticed is that a link rate is displayed in the mobile app for devices connected to a satellite, but before the update the link rate would only show for devices connected to the router and not the satellite.
So long story short is that everything on my systems works as expected when daisy chain is enabled even though my system is star topography. If I disable it I still get good backhaul connection, but my devices will never switch between router and satellite and if they do they will be reported as "unknown" in the admin section for connection type and show that they are connected to "Orbi Satellite" instead of my custom name I gave the satellite. You also mentioned that the screen flashes for attached devices every 3 seconds in the admin page, but mine was doing that even before the update.
JoeCymru wrote:
A bit more on the daisy chain issue. It is not exactly a reverse order experience. With daisy chain OFF, I get poor backhaul but the connetions are not in a daisy chain topology, but in the star topology (hub and spolke). With daisy chain ON, I get good backhaul but the system is also operating (it says) in the star topology.
With daisy chain off, satelites keep dropping in and out ... you can watch the graphed signal strength like an animated whack-a-mole. With daisy chain on (but still in star topology) the satelites stay relatively steady in signal strength. Also strange is when I resync the satelites with daisy chain off, the system initially shows backhaul is good for a few minutes, but then shifts to poor.
5GHz backhaul is at Ch 157 in both cases on my setup.
I am also getting the irritating icon flash on Attached Devices exactly every three seconds. which was not present before the update.
