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derekhansell
Jan 04, 2022Aspirant
Orbi RBR850 VLAN setting disabled itself
This is just knowledge sharing to save someone some time. Today I noticed my PS5 was struggling to stay online, even though it had previously connected, and other devices both LAN and WLAN were worki...
CrimpOn
Jan 04, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Thanks for sharing this frustrating experience. Learning new things every day.
For example, I had thought that the Orbi VLAN setting was intended to support IPTV for customers who get cable TV through their ISP internet connection. (My Spectrum cable service provisions TV, internet, and voice on different frequencies. Had not considered that optical fiber does not have "frequencies".) It had never occured (to me) that not enabling the VLAN would affect ordinary internet service.
derekhansell
Jan 04, 2022Aspirant
Yeah, CLink requires you tag your WAN port as VLAN 201. Only way I see to do that on the current firmware is by changing the default VLAN to 201. Doesn't seem to be any specific setting for just the WAN port.