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RBR50 - Pink light stuck on / internet works fine
Hi everyone, I have an Orbi RBR50 system with two satellites (RBS50). As of the last couple of days I've noticed the pink ring light turn on at random on the router and then shut off. As of thi...
My suspicion is that the router attempts to connect to a specific URL and displays the error condition if it cannot. (Personally, I would have attempted to resolve an URL into an IP address using a DNS query. Since Netgear does not publish exactly what they are doing, we have no way to know. Even some sophisticated monitoring of the internet connection when the router is powered on would probably capture such a flood of connections that it would be difficult to decide that any specific packet was the culprit.)
Certainly sounds annoying.