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JD15
Aspirant
Feb 04, 2021

Orbi reading lennox iComfort thermostat as a Satellite

  My lennox iComfort S30 will not connect to my Orbi network and I think this may be why.  It looks like the Orbi is trying to read it as a Satellite and not as a device that wants to connect to the...
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fmalloy
Luminary
Feb 04, 2021

Is it possible the Lennox unit tried to connect to the backhaul channel, which would make the Orbi think it's a satellite?

 

I had an issue with a NETGEAR WiFi dongle connected to my satellite dish box. In the dish box network setup, I saw two SSID entries for 5GHz (same string), and two for 2.4GHz (same string). I wondered why there would be two...

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    vajim
    Master
    Feb 04, 2021
    fmalloy wrote:

    Is it possible the Lennox unit tried to connect to the backhaul channel, which would make the Orbi think it's a satellite?

     

    I had an issue with a NETGEAR WiFi dongle connected to my satellite dish box. In the dish box network setup, I saw two SSID entries for 5GHz (same string), and two for 2.4GHz (same string). I wondered why there would be two...

    Thanks 

     

    I think the original poster is good to go