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Orbi RBR50 - Internet status says Not Connected
I have an Orbi RBR50 (and a satellite). Looking at the status for the Internet, it says "Not Connected" (see image). But for the PC hardwired, it works, and wireless works - most of the time. I ca...
I have the same problem.
all my devices connect properly.
My PC is connected directly to the switch then to the firewall. and everything works. no problem.
All the phones and ipads ect all work. youtube and all the sites work.
However, in the netgear orbi status page, it shows the same sign and the author.
If my netgear orbi was truely offline, it would not be able to download the update.
I'm wondering if it is becuase there is a website that the orbi router is trying to contact but can't that is why it says the network status is not connected?
Are you in AP mode or router? I wonder if it's a flaw when in AP mode since it techincally doesn't have an "internet connection"? But rather, the internet / external / WAN interface is just tied to the LAN and passing the connectivity through? I've monitored my firewall logs, so never see a failure - I think your thought is still a possibilty on connecting to a remote site, but I haven't seen a failure, deny, or reset log for it (or I missed it).
Mine is normally in AP mode. I even tried doing a factory reset wiping everything. Even in Router mode, it would show offline or disconnected.
WHich in itself is stupid since it received an IP address from my firewall, further it also was able to update my satellite firmware even when it said it was offline.
I'm not sure. I did see this problem before on an older firmware.Then after a few days of basically leaving it alone, it showed online. so i left it alone. However today it happened again, the whole wireless network died on my wife and all our mobile devices. after restarting, factory reset, the devices conncted again, but the internet still showed not connected.
It also seems that over time the network quality of the netgear orbi will degrade until you restart the whole mesh network.
Mine still shows "not connected" on the main RBR50. I did power down my satellite and haven't had it drop since.... so I will factory reset the satellite to see if that helps with my intermittent outage - I just haven't gotten to it yet to see if it helps. But then again, that's a different issue than the "not connected" status on the Internet connection.