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New - RBR50 / RBS50 Firmware Version 2.7.5.4
Bug Fixes: 02/23/2023
This firmware provides the following bug fixes:
Various Armor bug fixes
Various SPC (Smart Parental Control) bug fixes
Security Fixes:
This firmware addresses secu...
I recommend a power OFF the the RBR and RBS for 1 minute then back ON with the RBR first then RBS.
Should be fully synced after this.
Glad you got it working. Please mark your thread as solved so others will know. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/000062080/How-do-I-back-up-the-configuration-settings-on-my-Orbi-WiFi-System
Enjoy. 📡
Understood. I would do the steps for a wired backhaul. The satellite is (temporarily) in the same room as the router.. so it should be easy to try.
The goal is to re-connect them (somehow), re-flash the firmware, and try wireless backhaul again. That is how it was being used (wireless backhaul) and needs to be again.
I'll try the wired backhaul method and report.
I used the app as a wild shot at (wireless) syncing.. but I expect that the app vs web interface vs button press are all equivalent in setting the router and satellite into the "seek each other" mode.
The fact that both my satellites failed the same way, at the the same time and around the time of an automatic push-update of the router firmware tells me that this is not a hardware failure.. 🤞🤞
Success. The satellite connected with the wired backhaul, directly connected to the Orbi router ethernet port.
Funny stuff:
The satellite still shows the name I had given it many years back. The satellite still needed the password I had given it. Shouldn't the "factory reset" using the pin have reset all that and made the password the default "password"?
Now I will re-flash the satellite from the downloaded file, and try wireless backhaul.
🤞
I manually re-flashed the RBS (wired backhaul) using its web interface, which went fine.
Regrettably, the satellite went back to its solid magenta ring behavior when I disconnected the ethernet connection and tried wireless syncing. 😥
The only thing I can try now is to reset the router and try adding the satellite.I don't feel brave enough to try that!!
Success.
I rebooted the router and now, the subject satellite connects with "good".TLDR: Reboot the router if you have problems with devices (including satellites) reconnecting after a firmware update (manual or forced 😠).