NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Orbi won't reach garden room
Hi,
I bought a RBK50 setup but putting the satelite in the garden room is just out of range. I have a wired connection to it, but was hoping the Orbi would reach so that I could have the simpli...
FURRYe38 wrote:
Is both router and satellite using same version of FW?
The satellite should connect via wired afters it's been connected wireless. You can try this, bring the satellite to the same room as the router. Add it via wireless. Wait for the top LED to turn BLUE. when this happens, connect a LAN cable between the satellite and router. Top LED may turn on WHITE and pulsate, then turn on PINK, then BLUE. Wait for 5 minutes for BLUE to appear.
Let us know if you can get to this point.
Unfortunately it didn't work. The satelite would connect but would keep flipping from wired to wireless. Every restart it would start off promising with a pink then blue connection, but shortly after that it would go amber.
Is there a way to force the satelite to only connect via ethernet?
Also i'm plugging some additional devices into the satelite, is that likely to cause an issue?
unfortunately the current fimware has a bug that requires you to connect the satellite wirelessly, let it sync then plug in the ethernet cable for it to switch to wired backhaul. so in order for it to work you will need to get a small battery backup ups. plug the satellite into the ups in the same room as the router. let it sync. afterwords. walk the satellite and ups to the garden room, plug in the ups and ethernet cable. it should then switch to ethernet and work fine. its a stupid setup but its a work around until the firmware is corrected. if you do not have a solid connection wirelessly before you plug ethernet in it will not work.