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RBS on a permanent magenta
My RBS20 has started to always go in 'magenta' mode.
I have an RBR50 with 2 RBS50 satellites and it was not enough even though I do not have that big of a 2 storey house, the very usual English semi-detached.
So, in My 2020 I purchased the RBS20 satellite to cover the upper floor.
(Later I realised that I should not have bought the RBS20, I did not know that it had a slow backhaul, and potentially slowed down my entire setup.)
Without it now, the upper floor has very poor wifi, even though an RBS50 is just by the stairs one floor down, ie ground floor. Strange that when the ad for RBS50 says that it 'adds another 2,000 or 2,500 feet of coverage, I can't get coverage 5-6meters away.
Any idea how to make the RBS20 go out of this vicious cycle before I buy another RBS50?
I have reset the satellite numerous times, have tried synching it with the router either pressing synch first on the router or on the satellite itself, synching via the web api, synching via the mobile phone app, synching to another satellite, and I have done this over 30 times in the past 2 days, if not more.
In the beginning it would go from blue to flashing white, synch, blue, flashing white.
Now it goes from flashing white to solid magenta, then I press the synch button, flashing white, magenta, over and over again, no blue light anymore.
I am trying desperately not to have to factory-reset the entire orbi network. Strange that when I reset the satellite with a pin, the network still remembers its name, MAC address and everything
I have an RBR50 with 2 RBS50 satellites and it was not enough even though I do not have that big of a 2 storey house, the very usual English semi-detached.
So, in My 2020 I purchased the RBS20 satellite to cover the upper floor.
(Later I realised that I should not have bought the RBS20, I did not know that it had a slow backhaul, and potentially slowed down my entire setup.)
Without it now, the upper floor has very poor wifi, even though an RBS50 is just by the stairs one floor down, ie ground floor. Strange that when the ad for RBS50 says that it 'adds another 2,000 or 2,500 feet of coverage, I can't get coverage 5-6meters away.
Any idea how to make the RBS20 go out of this vicious cycle before I buy another RBS50?
I have reset the satellite numerous times, have tried synching it with the router either pressing synch first on the router or on the satellite itself, synching via the web api, synching via the mobile phone app, synching to another satellite, and I have done this over 30 times in the past 2 days, if not more.
In the beginning it would go from blue to flashing white, synch, blue, flashing white.
Now it goes from flashing white to solid magenta, then I press the synch button, flashing white, magenta, over and over again, no blue light anymore.
I am trying desperately not to have to factory-reset the entire orbi network. Strange that when I reset the satellite with a pin, the network still remembers its name, MAC address and everything
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Is this happening with the RBS in same room with the RBR?
- Yes, both in the same room and in another.
What FW version is loaded on the system?
Has the RBS and RBR been updated at all?
