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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 ...
So yeah, nevermind, it looks like Devolo is just for that weird European type electricity. :-)
I never realised that Devolo wasn't available/worked in the US.
As I suggested I'd look into using the Netgear Powerline devices as wired backhaul for the Orbi satellites as that way it doesn't matter what they are doing with MAC addresses as the devices connecting to Orbi would function as normal. If the broadband connection is fast enough for gaming then the issue is most likely the speed/reliability of the Orbi wireless backhaul.
DatabaseJase wrote:I never realised that Devolo wasn't available/worked in the US.
As I suggested I'd look into using the Netgear Powerline devices as wired backhaul for the Orbi satellites as that way it doesn't matter what they are doing with MAC addresses as the devices connecting to Orbi would function as normal. If the broadband connection is fast enough for gaming then the issue is most likely the speed/reliability of the Orbi wireless backhaul.
I appreciate the suggestions, I really do, but I haven't the first clue on how to even accomplish that. I'm not a guy who has the patience or the know-how to set that up. I mean, simple, step by step instructions is one thing, but "you should just do this" is above my pay grade. Don't take offense to that. I'm actually smiling as I type this. That's why I bought the Orbi system in the first place- simple plug and play. It was great until we (apparently) began trying to feed too much data through and then discovered that it was out of date, making adding satellites next to impossible since they aren't in production anymore. I'm willing to try anything before buying an updated system, but I don't have the knowledge to simply, make it happen.
No need to apologise and of course we all have different levels of experience. That's why friendly forums like this exist. :)
This is our setup which hopefully will help you configure yours.
RBR50 connected to Devolo 1 via Ethernet Cable
RBS50 connected to Devolo 2 via Ethernet Cable
RBS50 connected to Devolo 3 via Ethernet Cable
So plugging a network/ethernet cable into an Orbi network port and the other end into your Netgear Powerline ethernet port on each Orbi should be enough for the Orbi to detect that it can communicate with each node via the Powerline (Orbi doesn't know that it's Powerline it just sees the ethernet connection going from the Orbi ethernet port to the Netgear ethernet port) and switch to wired backhaul automatically.
I can say that this was all I had to do but my experience is with Devolo which seem to work differently to the Netgear devices you have. So you may not see the same results but in terms of setting things up it should just be a case of connecting an Orbi to the Netgear via ethernet cable.
You should see Orbi is using wired backhaul in the Orbi App. I'd suggest connecting the router and one satellite first and let us know how you get on.