Mixed Wired & Wireless Backhaul

Question

Do the Orbi's support wired backhaul yet? If so, is there a reference guide you can point me to explaining how to set it up?

I have an Orbi Router RBR 50, with a total of 3 additional satellites. This setup covers a 6,000 sq ft home & a 1 acre property. Everything runs off of this Orbi system. Wireless security cameras, Ecobee thermostats, Skybell, TV Boxes (minix NEO-U9h), laptops, tablets, etc. In total we have more than 30 connected devices. I suspect that the wireless HD security cameras are saturating the wireless backhaul. If we are watching TV (local network/wireless) & surfing internet at the same time, we sometimes get TV bufferring.

It's my belief that by running a hardwired backhaul to the Orbi Satellite closest to the cameras, would free up the wireless backhaul & greatly improve the performance of our network.

When the security cameras are turned off, I get a minimum of 500 Mbps connectivity in every corner of our home & every corner of our 1 acre property.

Best-

Darren

tagteam · Answer

The link below is about the only official reference you will find around here.&nbsp;https://kb.netgear.com/000051205/What-is-Ethernet-backhaul-and-how-do-I-set-it-up-on-my-Orbi-WiFi-System

AmitR · Answer

Yes. Mixed backhaul is supported. &nbsp;For example. &nbsp;&nbsp;Sat1. ---ethernet--- &nbsp;Router --- wireless---Sat2Router ---ethernet--- &nbsp;Sat1 ----wireless----Sat2&nbsp;&nbsp;

budy · Answer

Yes, my satellite is still working flawlessly. After I updated the satellite and the router to .18, I had to reboot the satellite twice, since after the router rebooted, the satellite once again showed up as bening connected via 5G, but the 2nd reboot solved that.In general, it seems to take quite a while for the router to recognize, in what way, the satellite is connected - not for the Orbi OS, but for the program/script, which hauls all the information in to prepare the attached devices page.I have taken a closer look at the Orbis via telnet and examined how they set up their bridges and from what I can see, this is a mere error or shortcoming from the developers, who might have some diffuculties parsing the quite complex output of those bridges.

darrenkdean · Answer

Sort of Good News is that Orbi is showing the hard wired backhaul on the two hard wired satellites. Other news, something has changed.

When I first hooked it up, the two satellites retained their IP Addresses *.242 & *.243 & connected devices began showing up under them. A few hours later, I logged into the Orbi to find that the IP Address of the satellites have changed to 192.168.1.250 & there are no connected devices showing up. Strangely, I can still hit the Satellites' GUI's by going to the *.242 & *.243 addresses. The 192.168.1.* address space does not exist in our network. The only device carrying this address space is the AT&T Gigapower Modem.

Orbi is setup in Access Point Mode, runs into a Cisco 3750G-24TS 3L switch, & receives DHCP, DNS, from a Microsoft Server 2016 domain controller.

Any thoughts on what is going on here?

budy · Answer

Yeah… this is the same way, my wired sat is being shown on the router's attached devices page. However, it seems that this is only a glitch in the Orbi's UI. When I log into the sat via telnet, that 192.168.x.x address is nowhere present in the system.

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Mixed Wired & Wireless Backhaul

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