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Orbi, Circle, and Powerline 2000 help needed
I have the Orbi RBR20 with three RBW30's attached throughout the house. We use Circle to limit the kids time on the devices. The internet connection wasn't good enough for gaming though, so I bought ...
DatabaseJase wrote:Where have you plugged the Powerline adaptor that provides access to the Internet?
I've tried it both ways. When I initially plugged everything up, the computer would show up on the network with the same MAC address. I would add it as I should have. Then once it disconnected, then reconnected again (on power-up), it was as if it was a brand new device. It had the same MAC and computer name, except the name had some thing like "-1", "-2", etc added to the end. Then, mysteriously, that computer disappeared from the list, and now it's just connected all the time, and unmanageable through Circle.
Sounds like it is something the Netgear Powerline devices are doing then as has already been suggested.
I realise this doesn't help you directly but I can confirm that Devolo devices work for us without interferrng with Circle. The Develo devices have their own IP address assigned by the Orbi using DHCP and those IP addressses also appears in Circle which we have just put into "unmanaged".
I'm sure you don't want to spend any more money on this. Hope you find a solution.