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OrbiOS 2.1.4.10 kills Internet access if you use Ethernet back haul
I'd been happily using the RBK50 Orbi AC3000 single satellite system since June of 2017 and started using ethernet back haul succesfully around October 2017. Typically 8-16 connections at any given ...
I updated my firmware to 2.2.1.210 today and it solved the ethernet back haul taking the internet connection down and eliminated a couple of other oddities that I was experiencing.
I have the same issue. I have RBR50 and and two RBS50 connected through wire due to poor signal, everything was working fine and smoothly. however, the new firmware made some devices unable to connect to the LAN and if connected; the internet is not available. When I reveret back to the old firmware, everything went normally. The problem is the firmware is automatically updated without my knowledge and the problem keep occuring.
I found the Daisy chaining feature enabled in the new released firmware, and I disabled it; however, did not resolve the issue. Additionally, when disconnecting the RBS50 and only working on RBR50, the devices can connect to the router and able to use the LAN and internet enabled.
Kindly, if you found how to resolve it, please share.
Thank you.
I got a RBR50 and two RBS50 (both via wired backhaul). My network got borked yesterday when it auto-updated. I noticed that after I shut off both satellites it did actually work. I factory reset everything anyway and set up the satellites via WiFi and everything worked. I put back one of the satellites to wired ethernet and it still worked. I changed to wired ethernet for the other satellite also and boom, withing a few minutes (the admin shows the satellite was wired) the whole network went down again. Couldn't even access the admin via wired connection. Wifi kept loosing connection. removed the cable and it worked again.
I then turned off Daisy-chain topology and rebooted router and satellite and then, after making sure that 1 RBR50, 1 RBS50 via Wifi and 1 RBS50 via ethernet worked, put back the ethernet cable to the second RBS50 and waited. Now it's been a few hours and the network is still up and working fine.
So in my case turning off Daisy-chain topology did help. I might want to use that in the future though so it does not feel like a good compromise having to turned it off.
It seems wired ether net overall has issues in this version. Some can't even get 1 satellite wokring and I had issues with 2.