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Orbi system - Faulty LAN / switching design - Will NG ever fix it?
Issue - Orbi system with 2 satellites (R1, S1, S2) will randomly drop LAN communication between segments. e.g. devices connected to S1 (both wired/wireless) won't be able to ping devices on S2 (or ...
The satellites are on the wifi backhaul.
My house conduits are rather tightly packed and drawing a CAT6 unfortunately will be a rather expensive and time consuming exercise .
I really doubt though that the issue is with the switching hardware. Network Switches are a very stable technology by now.
Also, I had no issues as long as I was on a 2 device setup.
I do believe that the LAN routing tables on the Orbi hardware get confused with 3 or more devices -
In a normal wired AP setup (say ubiquiti or even a basic cheap TP link), if i had 3 APs in a star formation with the central switch (say S1), a packet from a device on AP1 going to a device on AP2 would go : AP1 -> S1 -> AP2
I suspect the orbi stack maybe trying to optimize by routing packet directly :
i,.e. RBS20 -> RBS50 which obviously fails
instead of RBS20 -> RBR50 -> RBS50
Hi superczar , it looks like this is the most recent thread detailing your LAN / ARP issues. Are your devices still losing the ability to see each other? I'm shopping for a mesh kit and if I go with Orbi, my setup would probably look a lot like yours. I'm very worried about buying a kit that seems to be fine at first, but starts exhibiting this sort of behavior once the return period has elapsed. LAN-to-LAN traffic is very important to me, and I don't want to be stuck spending hours debugging what sounds like a longstanding firmware problem.