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Satellite RBS50 - Solid White Light
MyOrbi system (RBR50 & 1 RBS50) has been running well for about a year. Got back from vacation and found the satellite was no longer talking to the router. Various reboots later, still nothing. Upo...
Thanks for the suggestions...
I've re-paired many, many times, moved the satellite within 5 feet of the router, with no luck. I still just get a very dim nightlight :(
I connected an ethernet cable between the computer and the satellite. The only way I get a network connection is to reboot the satellite with the reset button pressed until the power light turns orange. The computer then sees a network come and go about 5 or 6 times, until the network stays.
The computer got the default address of 169.254.13.89, and of course I have no idea what the satellite IP address is. So I downloaded and installed a dchp service and tried again. But still no clue, and every address on the subnet I tried pinging it came back with Destination host unreachable, and every address I tried looking for the GUI failed too (though I didn't try all 255 other addresses!)
Admittedly my networking skills aren't at the pro level (I'm just a really experience software developer), but I kind of think I need an IP address on the satellite before I can try anything else, and it appears I can't even get that.
Mark
Set your computer to a static IP, like 192.168.1.10. You could try 192.168.1.250 as the default IP for the router IP and see if that works.
TFTP instructions here: https://kb.netgear.com/22688/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP
So I wrote a program (I mentioned I was a software developer, right?) to try all 256 addresses under 192.168.1.n. Each and every address came back with a timeout error. I would expect a web interface to be looking at port 80, right? Is there another port to try?
I'll try it again right after a reset to see if that works any better, but I'm not holding out much hope...
Thanks for the suggestions,
Mark
TFTP is port 69, and is UDP not TCP.
The default IP on other Netgear routers is 192.168.1.1, but others have reported seeing the sats come up using 192.168.1.250, so that's why I said to try that.