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RBR50 will not factory reset nor can I connect in any way
Last sunday we had a quick power outage and we lost everything. My backup generator came on and everything came up, or so I thought. The router and Starlink, one 10 port netgear gb switch were on a s...
@Nerfball wrote:Somehow the Starlink device took over when the router failed, except it is very glitchy.
This is not likely.
If the router continues to broadcast the WiFi SSID, and the satellites continue to support connections, then the router is indeed continuing to function. The Starlink has not "taken over".
When the router is turned off and totally powered down and my SSID is still being broadcast, the only way for that to happen is for the satellite to hold a configuration, which it just may be doing. I can connect to the satellites but their configuration seems to be little to nothing directly. I remember setting the backhaul and so forth through the router initially.
In those instructions for restarting the router on step 9 seems to be plainly telling me to expect an amber flashing light which doesn't happen. Says it right there unless there is something more I read right through.
I have been working with computers since the Commodore64, I know how to get around windows better than most. For sure, this router is not resetting back to 192.168.1.1, but 192.168.1.250. Better than this is that was never an ip I used for my network anywhere including static devices because that was not my structure. I can ping it, but that is about it. Nothing can actually connect.
I didn't see this post in the middle
If the router continues to broadcast the WiFi SSID, and the satellites continue to support connections, then the router is indeed continuing to function. The Starlink has not "taken over".
When the router is 100% powered down, it is impossible to broadcast yet by backhauling with a cable to both satellites, the SSID I set on the router before still gets broadcasted by the satellites and ends up working. I can only guess that the setup from the router to the satellites holds even though I gave them static addresses from the beginning and they now accept the new network scheme.
That is what I meant by the Starlink system taking over the control. They were not set to dhcp but it seems they are now. Maybe when the router dropped, there is some sort of failsafe in the setup but I do not remember ever seeing it.
Again, I can get to the gui of the satellite but I have nothing to go on for how it looked before. I set the satellites up through the gui of the router in the beginning and never connected direct except the one time a satellite needed a re-flashed firmware.