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Orbi in Malaysia
We've just swapped our crappy ISP provided router for an Orbi system, but cannot get it to broadcast internet. It runs and we can connect to its wifi, but I think the ISP's here use a particular conf...
Well I finally got mine installed. It wasnt painless but it wasnt horrific either. Having said that, Im 8 hours in and already have the Magenta Ring issue on the main router and can no longer access the router from the web interface as has been reported on other forums here at Netgear. Im using Orbi in AP mode.
Also I ended up having a really weird placing of the satellite. It took me hours to find a placement that would cover most of the house but I am still one satellite short for sure. Which is pretty disappointing given my house is 3200sq feet and I expected the whole house (3 story) to be covered. I only managed to cover ground and first floor and as mentioned that was with a weird satellite placement (both router and satellite are actually on the same floor).
My Asus RT AC68U gave me my full internet speed of 100Mb up/down on first floor, gave me around 50Mb on the ground floor and about 30Mb on 3rd floor. With the new setup Im getting 100Mb on first floor, 100Mb on ground floor where my TV is (and the whole reason i bought Orbi in the first place) but Im only getting around 20Mb on 3rd floor. (Im also getting about 30Mb in backyard and front yard). So the 3rd floor is a disappointment. I tested the satellite up there and got 100Mb so I guess I need one more.
But yikes I already paid RM2300 (not to mention the cost of the AC68u which is pulling router duties)and now i have to spend another RM1400????
Im regretting not waiting for the ASUS Hive. I guess overall Im satisfied, but not RM2300 satisfied if you know what I mean. Did a lot of research before buying but should have come to Netgear Forums and investigated here. All these fantastic reviews online are obviously people who used it for 20 minutes or had large open offices. In real life its only slightly better than the Asus RT AC68u I think.
My house walls are like Faraday cages though so I should have managed my expectations slightly better.
Hi ClintoKL,
Congratulations on getting it running in AP mode. Even that evaded me for quite some time...
I've just had another go at mine. Clear the cache on my Macbook, open Firefox, head to orbilogin.com and hope that it opens the main settings page to allow me to change to AP mode. If I am allowed into settings page configure for AP mode. Get a message telling me that the IP address will change. Wait a few minutes then lose all connectivity. I assume at this point, if I remove the LAN cable from my Apple TC, and plug it into the Orbi I should be rewarded with blistering wifi all over my house. Sadly not...
Did you do anything different to the above? Are you with TM and using their terrible router connected directly to your new Orbi base station?
Hi SDJ,
I use an Asus RT AC68u router. I left that on to start.
First thing I did was plug a lan cable into Orbi Router directly to my laptop and turned on Orbi Router. At this stage Orbi is not connected to any network or anything other than my laptop and power of course. Turned off my laptops wifi. Waited a few minutes. Opened Chrome typed in orbilogin.net. Got the error message. Tried twice more and finally logged in. Went to advanced tab. Advanced Setup and select Router/AP mode changed it to AP mode clicked apply. Let it reboot I think. I had to log back in after so I think I got tossed out. Regardless I could log back in no issue.
I then turned off the Orbi Router. Turned back on my laptops wifi. I then logged into my Asus Router and turned off the 2.4 & 5ghz wifi radios. I then plugged in the provided lan cable into one of my 4 lan ports on the Asus Router and the other end into the Wan port of the Orbi Router. Turned on the Orbi Router. It took about 5 or 6 mins but I could now see the Orbi as one of my wifi choices on my laptop. Selected by it and signed in using the password found on the router.
For some reason the firmware updated by itself as I noticed it had gone from 1.1.xx to 1.10.1.2.
I followed the instructions to connect the satellite which I did about 10 feet away from the router. Then I turned off the satellite and tested in various locations. Once it is synced you don't have to do it again. You can turn it off, move it, turn back on and it takes about 5 mins to eventually reconnect.
The Orbi Router inherited an IP address from the Asus router.
One thing to note the handover from one to the other is BS. I found I had to switch off satellite, get all the devices in my house that I wanted to connect to the router, connected first. Then I turned back on satellite and got the devices I wanted to connect to that. Don't believe the hype on device handover. I had devices connect to the closest one but not the fastest one!
Anyway try that.
Cheers
Hello everyone,
I believed I am the first person that own Netgear Orbi in Malaysia. Netgear sent me RBK53 on September 2016 for testing purpose. And I moved my Orbi from USA to Penang on January 2017. For those people who still have trouble setting up your Orbi with Streamyx (no Fiber in the area where I live in Penang yet), please contact me via private message. I am more than happy to help everyone to have their working.
My setup: Streamyx router as modem (configured as modem, not router, so I can get my DDNS working), RBK53 as router via PPPoE (router mode)
I know this reply might be irrelevant now (or too late), hopefully, I can still help.
Thanks.
Guys,
I spent a couple of hours this morning working with Melvin and my RBR50 is now working perfectly as a router and wifi unit. Melvin clearly knows his stuff and helped me step by step to get my system working. Those people who said it couldn't be set up as a router in Malaysia clearly don't understand the systems as well as he does.
Thanks Melvin!!
