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Orbi in AP mode with wired backhaul showing weird behavior
I recently set up an Orbi RBK53 system in AP mode (I don't need the orbi's router capabilities, as I'm using pfsense). The main orbi router is connected into a gigabit switch and one of the satellit...
Oh and one other good news. Now that the satellite is actually connected to the router directly and everything apperas to be working fine, daisychaining is doing what I want. Satellite-2 is connected to the wired satellite-1 instead of directly to the router. Signal strength to satellite-1 is much better and everything works great.
dopey1620 wrote:
Oh and one other good news. Now that the satellite is actually connected to the router directly and everything apperas to be working fine, daisychaining is doing what I want. Satellite-2 is connected to the wired satellite-1 instead of directly to the router. Signal strength to satellite-1 is much better and everything works great.
Great that things look good now.
One thing to be aware of is that wired backhaul together with Daisy Chain is not a good combination in the current software because of a software bug! Avoid having wired devices to the satellites for now until this is solved.
There is a beta software that is now being tested and it seems that this issue is addressed there :)
ekhalil wrote:
Great that things look good now.
One thing to be aware of is that wired backhaul together with Daisy Chain is not a good combination in the current software because of a software bug! Avoid having wired devices to the satellites for now until this is solved.
There is a beta software that is now being tested and it seems that this issue is addressed there :)
I've seen alot of comments to that but I've had a hard time finding specific details of the problem. Do you have a link to a post or something that describes what the problems are? So far so good for me :fingerscrossed: but it'd be good to know what problems I might run into.
ekhalil wrote:
Please check this out:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/NETGEAR-Orbi-AC3000-satellite-LAN-ports-stopped-working/m-p/1692454/highlight/true#M50302Aah interesting. I've not seen that behavior. One thing that I do note is that the wireless backhaul satellite does move between satellite-1 and the hub periodically. That's not a very heavily used satellite though so I don't know if when this happens what kind of downtime it causes. I'll have to watch out for both the behavior in that post as well as the movement stuff. Thanks for the info.