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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...
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.
I have a satellite going into my main switch and it appeared in the GUI as a satellite but after I do a orbi reboot from the GUI my wired satellite doesn't show up as a satellite (I'm on the .18 firmware that was released this morning). Despite the GUI problem do you find that the satellite is working properly?
If so what is your daisy chain setting? Checked or Unchecked?
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.