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RBR50 Red Lights Only - HELP!
My ORBI RBR50 Router has been disconnecting now about once a month for several months (4?). This time I cannot get it back. It shut off in the middle of the night for reasons we cannot determine. I h...
There are a lot of cooks in your kitchen!
Just to be clear: the power LED on the back of the Orbi glows green.
The "Ring Light" at the top of the Orbi glows magenta (technically, although it looks a lot like red to me).
This indicates that the Orbi WAN (Yellow) ethernet port is not connected to the ISP's modem. That is the first thing to check.
As for the satellite, there is no point in plugging in the satellite until the router is functioning. That was a good move.
Can you determine what the Asus router is connected to? He didn't unplug the Orbi?
And, yes, modern browsers complain about the Orbi web interface being "unsafe". It is a long, complicated story going back to the summer of 2019 when Netgear's SSL certificate for a bunch of URL's expired. (router.net, orbilogin.net, orbilogin.com... etc.) To my knowledge, no one has ever admitted if (a) Netgear forgot to renew the certificates, or (b) the certificate authority decided that it was stupid to allow 1,000's of devices around the world to claim to be "Netgear". After a lot of confusion, Netgear placed a Self-signed SSL certificate on the Orbi. Web browsers complain about self-signed certificates..UNSAFE.. UNSAFE..UNSAFE. And then, in very tiny type, there is an option to proceed to the site anyway. It's on your local LAN. You can connect to it.