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ar9
Aspirant
Aug 22, 2019

V2.3.5.30 Upgrade Has Been A Disaster

I have an Orbi router with three satellites all connected with Backhaul status "Good". Our experience has been touch and go with the Orbi with Satellites and device connections dropping intermittentl...
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RipInGlendale
Aspirant
Sep 13, 2019
Wasn’t able to connect strictly to the satellite via Ethernet...maybe because I had setup as AP? But resetting both router and satellite, setting everything back up in router mode and then switching back to AP seems to be working so far. Connected my laptop to the satellite via Ethernet again and ran Net Uptime Monitor for three hours and it logged no failures. Still a pretty unsettling experience.
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 14, 2019

So where you able to update the FW on the RBS? 

RipInGlendale wrote:
Wasn’t able to connect strictly to the satellite via Ethernet...maybe because I had setup as AP? But resetting both router and satellite, setting everything back up in router mode and then switching back to AP seems to be working so far. Connected my laptop to the satellite via Ethernet again and ran Net Uptime Monitor for three hours and it logged no failures. Still a pretty unsettling experience.