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Hasselblad100
Mar 06, 2021Aspirant
Orbi RBK50 Slow WiFi in AP Mode
Hi I have seen a similar post on this but would like to confirm before I return the hardware... I have an RBR50 wired to an ISP Router (Sky in the UK) and 1 RBS50 satellite. The Sky router ca...
Hasselblad100
Mar 06, 2021Aspirant
ok, thanks for the response. So that kind of says that Sky Hub and Orbi don't play well together unless you can live with double NAT. Sky has no modem-only mode and its the same problem for BT
gr8sho
Mar 08, 2021Virtuoso
Hasselblad100 wrote:...So that kind of says that Sky Hub and Orbi don't play well together unless you can live with double NAT. Sky has no modem-only mode and its the same problem for BT
How was that conclusion reached?
Many of us are stuck with gateways that can't be bridged. While IP passthrough and/or DMZ+ does work well enough, it seems like too much bother to worry about. At a technical level, I'd be hard pressed to come up with any reason how an ISP could make a 3rd party router in AP mode operate in a lesser capacity.
- Hasselblad100Mar 08, 2021AspirantEither 1) the WiFi doesn’t work properly in AP mode with Sky or 2) one or more of my units are faulty