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how to make Orbi RBR50 play nicely with Virgin Hub4
Hi all I've just upgraded to Virgin's 1Gbit service with a HUb4. I have 1 RBR50 and 3 RBS50 satellites. I've been using the Orbi system with hub3 before and never had the Virgin box in modem mode....
The advantage for me was 2-fold...
1) I have a number of devices that are just an absolute ballache to change wifi settings on - IOT thermostate and smoke alarms for example. By using the orbi as a router, I can change the connected modem without having to change all the devices. Each virgin hub has it's own wifi so even two the same will have different wifi settings. I am not sure if this can be changed.
2) I found when the hub3 networking goes down then everything is affected. The orbi handles my internal network now so I can still do some things without the internet, and I can power cycle the hub as necessary without having to reboot everything else!
hope that helps :)