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Orbi AP Mode Problem
I cannot get this system to work with a wired back haul in AP mode. If I just use the Orbi Satellites all wireless with just the router connected to my ASUS it works perfect. As soon as I chain connec...
computersteve wrote:
I cannot get this system to work with a wired back haul in AP mode. If I just use the Orbi Satellites all wireless with just the router connected to my ASUS it works perfect. As soon as I chain connect the orbis together it doesn’t. Meaning the router to the satellite, then from that satellite to the next.
The IP reservations are being done on the Asus router, correct?
(it should not be essential to reserve IP addresses for Orbi and satellites, but I like to "know where something should be", so I assign IP's to all the "stuff that doesn't come and go", such as desktops, printers, TV's, thermostats, etc. That's how my satellites came to be 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.50. Dumb old me set up two desktops and a printer before adding the satellite. Then, four years late I got another satellite. A person who "thinks ahead" would have reserved 2,3,4,5 for Orbi satellites. Oh, well.)
(I confess to not knowing is the Asus has IP assignments like the Orbi does, but it seems reasonable that it would.)
So, the Orbi is AP mode. Plug WAN port into Asus, and it gets the IP assigned to it by Asus, correct?
Power up one satellite and sync to Orbir router. Gets correct IP?
Connect Orbi router and satellite with ethenet patch cable, and satellite goes magenta (purple)?
Another tiny point is to have the "assigned" IP addresses and the DHCP "pool" be separate. The DHCP mechanism will still function, and devices will get the IP they are supposed to, but there is no chance of some random device asking for an IP while the assigned device is not connected and getting the assigned one. In practice this doesn't happen much, but if it does, then the assigned device get an IP that was not intended for it (from the pool) and thngs go rapidly downhill.