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Orbi and Ethernet Switch / Backhaul Setup
After reading this topic https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-and-Ethernet-Switch-Backhaul-Setup/td-p/1688979 I have some questions about my setup: Router -> Netgear switch GS108PEv3 -> Or...
These are the connecion senarious that you can connect RBS to the RBR:
Direct or with using a switch in the middle between the RBR and RBS.
NO idea why NG hasn't made the Orbi more compatbile with green ethernet features. Must be some reason. No idea if or when they will change that. So we just know, that some switches don't work well for Orbi systems. Some have posted that some green ethernet switches seem to work. Kind of a mixed bag.
Ha! Cracked it!
Connect the router and sattelites to an old switch, in my case an old Netgear GS105, but probably any non-modern switch will do. DO NOT connect the router via the yellow Internet socket. Press Sync on router and all satellites and it happens. I then moved the satellites to different corners of the house, reconnected them to the LAN with its green switch and they remembered they continued to use the ethernet backhaul. I changed the IP address on the router, which caused it to reboot and had to borrow the GS105 from the museum to set them up once more but they've been stable ethernet backhauling ever since.
Odd quirk is that the router is still showing a magenta light, as reported by others, but works fine. Google speeds above 200mbps sometimes on each of them so I think that bit is cracked - for me.
Now to assign static addresses to the satellites to move them into the "network kit" address band.
Yes, be sure to use the LAN ports on the back of the RBR for connections to wired devices and the RBS. The yellow port is for connecting the RBR to the ISP Modem or a host router.
Please mark your thread as solved so others will know.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
The confusion arose because the connection to the ISP was via a CISCO router on the LAN, so I plugged the LAN cable into the yellow Internet socket and it worked - but only when it was using WiFi backhaul to the satellites.
Is this a fix or a workaround NETGEAR's failure to design the Orbi to work with contemporary green network equipment?
It relieved my pain but NETGEAR needs to get its head out of the sand, see where the rest of industry is heading and fall into line.
Can't see where to mark the thread as fixed anyway.
FURRYe38 wrote:Yes, be sure to use the LAN ports on the back of the RBR for connections to wired devices and the RBS. The yellow port is for connecting the RBR to the ISP Modem or a host router.
Please mark your thread as solved so others will know.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
I cannot connect RBS to RBR to lan port, for that I need to have one extra cable and that is not possible.
Maybe I should ask now a different question: What will work/be better if I connnect RBS to RBR lan port? At he moment everything works, exepts magenta light on RBS and less stable wifi ion RBS.These are the connecion senarious that you can connect RBS to the RBR:
Direct or with using a switch in the middle between the RBR and RBS.
NO idea why NG hasn't made the Orbi more compatbile with green ethernet features. Must be some reason. No idea if or when they will change that. So we just know, that some switches don't work well for Orbi systems. Some have posted that some green ethernet switches seem to work. Kind of a mixed bag.