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drksavant
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Oct 17, 2018

Orbi Satalite spawning open network of previously defined network after reboot of main router

Hi, I've had my Orbi + Sat for a couple of months now, and everything worked fine, couple of days ago i rebooted my MAIN orbi router because i had some network glitches, then everything was fine again, at least thats what i thought, somehow the orbi sattelite WAS connected and seemed to be spawning 2 wireless networks (2.4 and 5) with both the name i defined, but ALSO an OPEN network connecting to my network with a name i defined "initialy months ago but replaced" . looking at the sat i didnt see anything to change or configure or referring to the old settings, so i decided to reboot ORBI SAT, and all is well again, im just wondering, what are the odds of it spawning the old settings again ? (really annoying to be broadcasting an open network which connects to my network) has anybody seen this happen before ?

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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Oct 17, 2018

    Should not be using old SSID names if they have been changed. 

    Has FW been updated recently? I would try a factory reset on the satellite and router and setup from scratch. 

    If you updated to recent FW v.210, try enabling Daisy Chain. Some have mentioned that this seems to be working in reverse order, enabling means disabled actually. Hoping NG support can have a look at this. So try this out as well.
    https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Firmware-2-2-1-210-and-connection-problems-Skybell/m-p/1649275/highlight/true#M43001

  • st_shaw's avatar
    st_shaw
    Master
    Oct 17, 2018
    drksavant wrote:

     has anybody seen this happen before ?

    Yes.  I have seen another user report this behavior where the open network was a guest network that was previously enabled then removed.  It appears that maybe your satellite did not receive an updated configuration properly from the router, at the point when you removed the open network.  Perhaps the satellite connectivity to the router is marginal and the satellite needs to be moved to a point closer to the router or with fewer walls between.