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Satellite showing up as a device and not a satellite.
Setting up my new Orbi and while it shows that there are devices and one satellite connect, when I drill down the satellite shows with the rest of the devices and the section under satellites is bla...
If you do a ssid scanner type program, channel 157 is the backhaul communication between satellite and router. It's a "hidden network". There is also a hidden network on 2.4 Ghz that shares the same channel as your orbi ssid. Maybe its the placeholder for a guest network.
Good to know, not sure they they don't stick the backhaul on a seperate 1918 adress but maybe that will change in the future.
While I was driving, support called about my initial link issue and I asked about a way to see the link quality between the router and satellite. I was told that there was a backhaul status page that would show the link quality but I can't seem to find it. Any ideas?
They said to go under Router -> Status -> Backhaul.... but I don't see any of that.
I don't see any of that either, maybe its in the next firmware release that hasn't been let loose into the wild.
