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Orbi RBW30 wont connect properly or upgrade firmware
I have an existing RBR50 with a Satellite and have just bought a RBW30 to extend it. Connecting to the Router, the satellite comes up blue leds but on the app it shows yellow which indicates it is n...
Whoa. Your satellite firmware should be 2.2.1.204. It is doubtful that you can jump that many updates between that, and your firmware. Actually 1.1.9.8 is about eleven (11) updates old. Really old. Not sure where you got it, but someone had to blow the dust off.The only way you will get this going is to do some progressive updates.
Go to https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rbw30.aspx#RBW30%20Firmware%20Version%202.2.1.204 and download some progressive updates between your firmware and what it is supposed to have. It could be a pain but then once you have them, try doing progressive manual updates for the satellite through the web gui. Maybe every three. Hard to tell. There ae some big changes in there.