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Mixed Wired & Wireless Backhaul
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...
The link below is about the only official reference you will find around here.
Yes. Mixed backhaul is supported. For example.
Sat1. ---ethernet--- Router --- wireless---Sat2
Router ---ethernet--- Sat1 ----wireless----Sat2
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?
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.
