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Orbi as AP not seeing wired backhaul sattelites
I have an Orbi and 4 satellites. It was unreliable and "quirky" for a while and I decided to try offloading the routing/switching to a dedicated router and switch, using the Orbi as an access point only. The orbi system is now in AP mode and appers to work and the rest of the network is stable.
What is happening is, when I look at the Orbi's attached devices, it shows only two of the four sattelites (the ones not connected via ethernet backhaul). The other two don't appear. What makes this even stranger is, if I log into the "missing" sattelites, they are up, running, and have users connected to them.
So, is something configured wrong? Is this just yet another bug in what is clearly very buggy firmware?
I am on the latest firmware on all hardware (2.1.4.10).
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Whats the Mfr and model# of the other router and switch?
What mode are you using the Orbi system in? Router or AP mode?
The Orbi is in AP mode
The Router is a Ubiquity Edgerouter pro
There are a couple of switches. Netgear, and Cisco. All are Gb switches.
I essentially see the same thing you see with your ethernet backhaul. Other commentors have chalked it up to a display issue only (but yes it is a bug)
