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Just replaced my Velop for Orbi...So far not impressed.
I had the Linksys Velop system - 3 nodes - bought it over the Orbi when they both first came out - mainly because the Velop offered wired backhaul. It worked great - evern QOS.
We just fini...
Make sure you are on the latest firmware on all orbi devices. And you may want to experiment with a couple of settings in the advanced wireless settings such as Beamforming, MUMIMO, and Fast roaming see if enabling these or disabling them helps at all with your wireless devices losing connection.
DarrenM
Since you are still within the 90 day Netgear support window you should call them and ask when the new firmware to fix the wired backhaul problem is coming out (and post the answer to the forum so the rest of us can know when it might drop).
Some folks can get the wired back haul to work, I can't. (I followed all of the suggest and can't get it to work even though it it used to work for me until the latest firmware which broke it for me and many others).
Can't explain why it works for some and not others. Netgear has done a terrible job communicating what is going on with the wired backhaul. To make matters worse I can revert to old firmware and my wired backhaul works perfectly but Orbi won't allow you to decline firmware updates so after I've downgraded the firmware a few days later the ORBI overwrites with the latest firmware and I'm broken again.
Welcome to the world of Orbi, you just spent $1000 to be a beta tester for Netgear.
It has been nothing but frustration so far. My latest discovery is that it may appear that I can't use a network switch between the router base and the satellites. Which makes no sense to me. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
I was able to get one of the satellites to work using ethernet backhaul with a switch - but after a reboot it would not work at all. Even though the satellite keeps broadcasting the Network Wifi info and allows users to join even though it is not connected. Very frustrating.
If I connect the Satellite directly to the router/base it seems to be more stable. But sorta defeats the purpose.
Anyone here know the best practice?
Router/Base to Satellite with switch connected (Need more ports than 3).
Or can you go:
Router/Base to Switch to Satellite?
And would it be possible to go Router/Base to Switch to 2nd Switch to Satellite?
I have mine going through a couple of switches using a wired backhaul. But i have also noticed that some switches do not work. I have 2 dlink swithes that I am using. But I have noticed that if I use a netgear smart switch it stops working.
