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rwilliams1
Aspirant
Apr 11, 2019

Issue with Orbi RBR50

If you are connecting your Orbi router and satellite together via ethernet, there is no need to have the radio backhaul channel active, yet there is no way to turn this off in the software. In my c...
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rwilliams1
Aspirant
Apr 13, 2019

I tried to use Putty to telnet into the RBR, but it's failing. Is there anything special I need to do to enable Putty to connect? I have left the setting as default.

 

Thanks

Robert

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 13, 2019
rwilliams1 wrote:

I tried to use Putty to telnet into the RBR, but it's failing. Is there anything special I need to do to enable Putty to connect? I have left the setting as default.

Telnet is turned on using the Orbi "debug" page.  i.e. 192.168.1.1/debug.htm.  Any telnet client will then work.  I, personally, use Putty because Putty makes it easy to save a complete log of the session.