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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.
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I'm trying to separate the Wifi 2.4 GHz and 5GHz bands but I can't get telent to connect to the Orbi Home. I enable telnet at 192.168.1.1/debug.htm and type telnet 192.168.1.1 into the Windows Powershell but I get no response from the Orbi Home. Why isn't telnet responding on the Orbi Home?
Is Telnet Client check-marked on the Control Panel, Programs & Features, Turn Windows features on or off"?
Yes. If it wasn't Windows would give an error message when entering the telnet command. As it is, it doesn't give any error message, it just doesn't connect... there is no response from the Orbi Home after entering telnet 192.168.1.1.
You are entirely correct. If telnet is not active, there's an error message.
My first step would be to revisit 192.168.1.1/debug.htm
Uncheck the telnet box. Wait for the web page to refresh. Check it again. Wait for the web page to refresh. Then try telnet again.
I telnet into Orbi every day.
Just to double check: the computer being used for telnet is the same computer being used to access the debug.htm web page?
Yes, it's the same computer. I tried disable/re-enable telnet in the debug window (again), but telent still doesn't connect in the Windows Pwershell. All I can see is the first time I try it in the Powershell Window a child window flashes open, then immediately closes before I can see what's in the window. When I re-enter the telnet command the child window does not re-appear and telnet still doesn't connect.
I very annoying that Netgear didn't allow direct settings to name 2.4 and 5 GHz SSIDs. You'd think they would have fixed that by now. I may have to just shut off the 5GHz band to make sure everything connects to the same 2.4 GHz network.