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Orbi backhaul goes to wired when should be wifi
My setup is one router + 2 satellite. On one of the satellite I have connected via wire a SKY Q Extender. If I connect the SKY Q when all the WI FI is up, an IP is assigned to the extender by my main...
The RBR is reading the status as wired as the RBS is wired to this extender which correct, however is a odd configuration in the first place. I would use the extender after the RBS and not in between the RBR and RBS. The Sky Q would be the variable.
Is not the RBR that is read as wired but the RBS where the extender is connected to acquire the IP, like it would be any other IP device.
Thats because its connected wired so it would read as a wired connection...
Well is a wrong read. Is not wired to the RBR, just to another device that is the SKYQ Extender, no sense of reading the backhaul connection as wired. Just a bug.
Not a standard configuration if your using a extender with a RBS. Would not be a bug with Orbi. If an RBS is wired to an extender then it's communication is doing thru the wired, then to the extender. Orbi only reads status directly from the RBS or when the RBS is ethernet connected directly to the RBR or thru a switch. Even when the RBS is ehternet connecte, it will read as wired which is correct. Remove the extender between the RBR and RBS and you'll get correct status read from the RBS to the RBR.
However your configuration is working for you then don't worry about the status. Just it for what it does. Just know that Orbi doesn't fully support your configuration.
Good Luck.