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Plaxican
Aspirant
Apr 04, 2022

Orbi RBR50 Router and RBS satellites with different firmware

Hello all   Hope anyone can help with the issue which my router (RBR50) and 2 satellites RBS50.   RBR50 and 1 of the satellite are on the current firmware V2.7.3.22 - but ONE of the satellite is ...
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Plaxican
Aspirant
Apr 04, 2022

Thanks for the quick response.

 

I have the satellite plugged into the router (RBR50) 

The satellite (older version) have magenta/pink led

 

INVALID HW ID, USE DEFAULT ORBI as a device instead of a satellite.

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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 04, 2022

You can cheat. Factory reset the satellite. 

Then hardwire a pc/laptop into the satellite.

Its default ip address should be 192.168.1.250

from there you can manually update it and re-sync it to the system. 

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    Plaxican
    Aspirant
    Apr 04, 2022

    After reset and connected via ethernet to a laptop 

    The IP is 169.254.167.216 - it's a self assigned IP?

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      Plaxican
      Aspirant
      Apr 04, 2022

      After awhile, 

       

      The network shows up as

      IP address 192.16.1.128

      Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

      Router: 192.168.1.250

       

      But when I point to browser at 192.168.1.250

      I get "500 - Internal Server Error"

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        plemans
        Guru - Experienced User
        Apr 04, 2022

        did you try a different browser?