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Orbi creating two different IP Ranges?
Hi All, I am hoping someone can help me. It seems I have two different IP ranges floating around my house. First, a bit about my setup... I have a Netgear ORBI RBR50 with one satelite. I also...
Att devices are notorious for passthrough dmz not working correctly.
Again, many times the easiest router to get everything working properly is leave the att device in routing mode, disable its wifi, and place the orbi in AP mode.
Its not hard to do and if it fixes your issue, then its the att combo device causing issues.
Adding to plemans's comments, I would avoid IP Passthrough at all cost because it could create other problem down the road and taxing Orbi CPU with NAT'ing. If you don't have gigabit speed, it might not matter (gigabit + NAT == ~100% CPU on my Asus RT-AC87U).
Having ATT box does all the basic routing/dhcp stuffs + NAT'ing will allow Orbi to focus on WiFi, which is its strength. It doesn't mean that Orbi Quad-core 716 MHz processor can't deal with gigabit download speed. Having Orbi in AP Mode will keep the setup simple and take advantage of the strength of both boxes.
Thanks for all the assistance on this. I wanted to provide an update after many hours on the phone with AT&T, SONOS, and Netgear. The final solution was to set IP Passthrough on my AT&T device and set my Netgear Orbi as an Access Point. With this solution all of my connected devices seem to work fine.
At one point Netgear told me I simply needed to buy a new Orbi.... This has all been very frustrating to say the least. I am not a networking expert, to say the least, and between these three companies, they didn't seem to understand how to make the technology work together.
I am happy everything is working, but using Orbi as an access point disables a lot of features that made me buy it in the first place.
You're right in that it does disable a lot of the features that you buy orbi for. I'd love to be able to point that at Netgear but the orbi has to be set that way because of the ATT box and they way they design/code their stuff.
I understand your frustration but what do you think Netgear can do to make ATT setup their devices properly to work with 3rd party equipment?