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rohinbhargava
Follower
Sep 15, 2019

RBS 50 - Satellite showing 2.4GHZ as disabled

Hi, 

I have a Orbi RBR/RBS 50 system. However after recent firmware update. I see on my satellite that its 2.4GHZ is disabled. How do I enable the same?

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  • ekhalil's avatar
    ekhalil
    Master
    Sep 15, 2019

    It should be enabled by default, there is not setting to disable any band. Have you tried to reboot the Satellite?

    • frikinevil's avatar
      frikinevil
      Aspirant
      Sep 28, 2019

      Just happened to me as well!  I moved my sat due to poor backhaul here is the pic.  I will reboot sat to see if this odd issue goes. will let you know

       

       

      • frikinevil's avatar
        frikinevil
        Aspirant
        Sep 28, 2019

        A reboot of the sat sorted it.  Oddly it said 2ghz was disabled??? I did another reboot and it started working. 

         

        My situation is I am trying to get optimal placement of the two devices, the sat is showing blue as good connection but the AP router is showing backhaul of "poor".

         

        <rant> Not trying to be a troll here!  You guys on here are great, I have read a lot of posts and learnt alot about the Orbi.  My story: I have had the Orbi for about 2 years (RBK40/RBS40) and frankly fed up with it!  I work from home a lot and the constant "orbi knows best" switching from sat to AP router keeps disconnecting my VPN connection to work, which then requires me to disable wifi and re-enable so the MS DirectAccess works (sensitive to mac address jumps to wifi for security reasons).  Also, my Ring video doorbell latency is just plain stupid, press the doorbell takes 5 minutes for the chime to respond, I fixed this by putting a repeater on a different SSID which solved the issue, I apprecaite that may be a hardware failing on Ring's part.  However,if  orbi could allow you to assign to a specific device to a specific node, then these problem would go away.  Honestly I am at wits end with this system, having to use my old repeaters to get things working is not a solution. Having to telnet on to configure different SSID's which get wiped when the next firmware comes along is a serious pain. I may go back to ASUS and use thier AIMesh topology as I have my old routers that are supported.

         

        I am sure this setup is fine for people that use the internet to look at cat videos and such, but as a costly all encompasing mesh coverage network (which is what sold me on the idea) its falling short of the mark.

         

        I will probably get a lot of critisism for saying the above, but as a mesh network goes, this is pretty basic and expected better from netgear. </rant>

         

        Sorry if the above puts anyones nose out of joint.  I just dont see Orbi as a solid solution anymore.