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My Ethernet Backhaul Setup
Sorry in advance for the long post.
I have been following this forum as an observer for quite a while now, and have noticed that many people are having issues with their Orbi setup, either when...
ed-m, when you power cycle the Orbi system, are you keeping the satellites plugged in via the ethernet cables to the RBR50? If so, then this is probably why it is not connecting properly to your wireless clients. Whenever you do the reset dance, you should unplug the ethernet cables linking the orbis together, and have it connect to the wireless backhaul first. Then, once the satellite is connected and synced with the RBR50, plug in the ethernet cable and it should switch over to wired backhaul.
SeaMonkey80 , thanks for the reply. I hadn't tried that, and that is possible for one of the satelites to establish a wifi backhaul first, but for the second one, the signal is just not strong enough for the wifi backhaul to connect. But I think your idea is good, and in fact yesterday I finally got the second satelite to work by deleting it, bringing it next to the RBR, and syncing the units over wifi, then I moved the satelite back and connected it with ethernet and all seems good for now .....
... but....
I shouldn't have to jump through hoops everytime there is a hiccup..... the firmware needs to improve..... and I'm not sure what happens for the rest of the family if i'm not around the next time there's a problem.
Thank you for jumping in and responding to my post yesterday ..... I appreciate the help :)