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AmitR
Mar 23, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Orbi MR 2.1 Update 3/23/18
Our teams are still working through the issues, but I wanted to provide a quick update on OrbiOS 2.1. We usually wait to release our software until it's available across all Orbi product lines, but ...
ktoonsez
Mar 24, 2018Star
I loaded this up about 3 hours ago. At first I had the same problem as some people with the satelites bringing down the whole network until I did this, hope it helps someone.
1. Held down the factory reset button on each satelite till the power led started blinking amber (I did NOT factory reset the router, but will if I have any troubles).
2. Once I saw that it was in process of rebooting, I plugged in my ethernet cable for ethernet backhaul
3. Once each satelite booted back up I could see in the "Attached Devices" page the satelites had a status of "sync config" (or somethng close to that). Obviously it was getting its setting back from the RBR.
4. Everything has been perfect after that so far.
Here is my setup:
1 - RBR50
2 - RBS50's (both of them are hooked up to a Netgear GS108 switch along with a few PC's and DirecTV boxes, then a single cable going from switch to the RBR50.
Also something worth noting, I reserved permanent IP's for my 2 satellites.
joknutsen
Mar 24, 2018Guide
Thank you for the suggestion. I did paperclip factory reset of the sat's but not the router, and it did settle down the system. I am now able to run one sat with Ethernet backhaul, and one over WiFi (and they daisy chain). I am no longer experiencing drops and cycling of backhaul connection between router and sat