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Adding 2nd satellite brings down network intermittently
I've had my Orbi and 2 satellites for years with no problems when they operated in Access Point mode. Last September, Google Fiber replaced their modem/router with a modem and I changed the Orbit to...
I have tried all 3. Currently using the star topology setup.
I did a third thing. I bought refurbished units cheap on Woot to see if one of my satellites was bad. They did not fix the problem either. That was my other reason for giving up on the Orbi's.
What I learned to do was after restarting the system I would watch the units start up and connect perfectly on a desktop computer thru the router's built in website and then one or both satellites would disconnect and reconnect every few minutes. They would take turns disconnecting and connecting. After I saw that happening, I decided to stop wasting my energy and went with the Google Wifi. Google now had a 6e system I think it is called Nest Pro.
Sounds like you may have had a faulty system in the first place.
I should add that mine worked for years with no problems with the wired backhaul. And when the problems developed there had been no recent Orbi firmware updates. And the switch I had been using worked well with the Google Wifi for many months and may still be perfectly good. The only thing that definitely failed at a few months later was the Google Fiber port (modem). My only theory was an unknown update to Google Fiber had developed an incompatibility with Orbi or the Orbi was more sensitive to a problem with the GF port than the Google wifi system.
Anything is possible when it comes to ISP stuff.
What is the brand and model # switch you had been using with the Orbi system?
