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RBR40 Firmware Trials, Tribulations, and Partial Solutions
Summary
RBR40 = Firmware issues and bugginess
RBR20 = small, simple, solid reliability
RBW30 = Simple addon satellite
Orbi Overall = Powerful and highly customizable. Perfect for network geek...
Thanks for suggestion, but yes, I tried those things and more.
Keep in mind that the same issue would apply to the working solution, ie/ the RBW30 synching to the RBR20 (works fine) is the same as getting the two RBS20 satellites synching with RBR40. For whatever reason, I was able to (eventually) get any combination of two satellites to synch with the 40, but only the 20 successfully connected to all 3 satellites.
i may try again after the next firmware update for the RBR40, but since my setup is now working and stable, I’ll leave it “as is” for now.
DickDuke wrote:
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Despite hours of attempts, and solution searching, it eventually proved impossible to connect all three satellites to the router. I'm typing this after giving up, and stiffing the updated RBR40 into my computer junk drawer.
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reliability
May be a trivial question, when you buy an RBK package the Satellites and the Router are all already synced, but when you add a Satellite thatisn't synced with an existing Router you need to do the syncing by pressing the Sync button on the Satellite and the Router until they sync then do the same with the other Satellites, have you done that?
Thanks for suggestion, but yes, I tried those things and more.
Keep in mind that the same issue would apply to the working solution, ie/ the RBW30 synching to the RBR20 (works fine) is the same as getting the two RBS20 satellites synching with RBR40. For whatever reason, I was able to (eventually) get any combination of two satellites to synch with the 40, but only the 20 successfully connected to all 3 satellites.
i may try again after the next firmware update for the RBR40, but since my setup is now working and stable, I’ll leave it “as is” for now.
Makes me wonder if there is a HW failure of the 40 series with 3 satellites.
DickDuke wrote:
Thanks for suggestion, but yes, I tried those things and more.
Keep in mind that the same issue would apply to the working solution, ie/ the RBW30 synching to the RBR20 (works fine) is the same as getting the two RBS20 satellites synching with RBR40. For whatever reason, I was able to (eventually) get any combination of two satellites to synch with the 40, but only the 20 successfully connected to all 3 satellites.
i may try again after the next firmware update for the RBR40, but since my setup is now working and stable, I’ll leave it “as is” for now.
