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LBR20 Router / AP Mode option greyed out
Hi Using a LBR20 with two RBS20 satellites the LBR20 is connected on WAN plug to my fibre modem Router Firmware Version V2.5.2.20 going to http://orbilogin.net/, the advanced/advanced se...
Viking42 wrote:going to http://orbilogin.net/,
the advanced/advanced setup Router / AP Mode
Router / AP Mode is fully greyed out, i cant go into that menu
any idea on how to make that work? i want my LBR20 in ap mode so that it takes over the IP reservation from my modem
Have you tried rebooting the Orbi? I do not recall anyone posting about this before, It may be that a Factory Reset will be required to undo whatever setting has gone bad.
Before going further, can you please explain more about the desired result? "takes over the IP reservation" may be clear to you, but I am uncertain what you want:
- The Orbi to have the "public IP" assigned by the Internet Service Provider (ISP).
This has nothing to do with the Orbi mode setting. If the Orbi is now getting a "private IP" from the modem, that is controlled by a modem setting. i.e. the modem is actually a "modem/router". - The Orbi to handle IP assignments to all of the devices connected to it.
This is part of "router" mode, not AP mode.
Hi,
My Fiber modem is configured in the way that it assigns fixed IP's to a certain amount of devices in my home for home automation purpose.
With my previous Wifi AP this worked fine as the wifi router just took over the fix IP allocation of my fiber modem in any case.
So far with my orbi wifi system, i did not find a way to ensure the fixed IP's assigned by the fiber modem are kept.
I could do it the dirty way and in the orbi interface also assign the same fixed IP's but the IP range form orbi and my modem are hugely different (10.0.0.xx for my modem, 192.168.x.x for the orbi wifi) so with my level of talent this sounds risky