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Orbi router solid magenta (not the satellite)
My Orbi router (not the satellite) stays solid magenta after rebooting. When I login to the router, every parameter looks OK. The router is in Access Point mode and has received an IP address from my...
After two days of great working I´m facing the same issue.
It appears at router and AP mode, I´m in AP Mode. Orbi did a firmware update to the latest possible version when I bought it 3 days ago at 25 Jan 2017.
I have to use Orbi at a LAN port of an AVM Fritzbox which uses its WAN port to connect to the ISP.
When I installed my Orbis it also did a firmware update, so I was assuming they were on the latest version. Turned out they weren't. After I upgraded manually to .34 the problem went away for me. So you may want to check the actual firmware version just to be sure.
It also seems that Orbi doesn't do automatic updates - which I was hoping they would with all the router hacks going on these days. If that's true, that would be a bit disappointing. I know that other mesh-network routers do for exactly this purpose.
Be careful... Apparently, this is an extended uptime issue with the RBR50. Went Magenta again on me out of nowhere after several weeks of uptime on V1.4.0.34
I was only looking at the Satellite, because that was my problem, and the light of the Satellite did not burn Magenta for several week.
But your report triggered me to look at the Router and I found the light of the Router burning Magenta.
In Netgear Genie I could not find the IP address of the Router, but I found the IP Address of the Satellite and I could ping to the Satellite.
With Wifi Analyzer I saw that both the Router and the Satellite where sending wifi signal and by walking from Router to the Satellite it was switching from signal.
The wifi of both are working, but still the Router is burning Magenta.
So the firmware update solved the Satellite to burning solid Magenta, but did not solve the Router to burning solid Magenta.
