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JohnJohnson123
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Sep 15, 2019

RBR50 satelite loses (wireless) connection when turning of DHCP

I have an RBR50 router together with a satelite - the backhaul is over wifi. I have a DHCP server wired to the satelite and it seems to work fine.   I then wanted to disable the Orbi DHCP server s...
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FURRYe38
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Sep 20, 2019

Any progress on this? 

JohnJohnson123 wrote:

I have an RBR50 router together with a satelite - the backhaul is over wifi.

I have a DHCP server wired to the satelite and it seems to work fine.

 

I then wanted to disable the Orbi DHCP server since I find it a bit limiting. However, when I do that the satelite loses connection to the main router. I do not understand what is going on here, or why it even happens. The main router seems to work fine, and I can log into it (with a static ip of course) and turn on DHCP again.

 

when I turned DHCP off on the main router I was hoping the satelite would just keep running with it's current IP, but even if it requested a new one (for some reason) I would assume it would recieve one without any problems since it has a wired connection to the DHCP server.

 

Can anyone here help me understand what is going on?