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RBR20 Mesh System Hardwire/Wireless Mix
Hello all, I have the RBR20 Mesh system and it came with 2 direct plugin satellites. I recently purchased an RBS20 add on satellite to put in my exterior garage, but it's a little bit too far fro...
arichter11 wrote:
Hello all,
I have the RBR20 Mesh system and it came with 2 direct plugin satellites. I recently purchased an RBS20 add on satellite to put in my exterior garage, but it's a little bit too far from the house, so while I was getting a conduit run from my house to garage for electric, he plumbed an ethernet line as well so that I could plug this satellite in directly to my Verizon router to get internet to the garage. I'm thinking I may made an error in my planning, but here is how my home network is currently configured.
- Verizon Modem (basement) is connected to 5 port switch (also basement)
- 5 Port Switch Has a line going to my Orbi RBR20 (2nd floor) and also through the conduit to my garage, where I plugged it into my RBS20
- I was under the impression that when the RBS20 was connected to the Verizon Modem that it would then sync up with the mesh system through the Sync button and all that. It didn't. What it did instead was tried to act like a router, which obviously it can't do because it's a satellite. My RBR20 cut out when I plugged in the RBS20. I unplugged and plugged in my RBR20 and it "took" the internet back and I was up and running again, but of course without that satellite
- Is the only way to get the mesh system to run as a whole if I plug the satellite directly into the RBR20? or is there a way that I can sync all of this up by keeping it plugged into the Verizon router directly?
To make the remote RBS work right, it has to connect directly to the back of the RBR, not the Verizon router:
If you can get a line from where it connects near the Verizon router up to the RBR, then it will work.