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Okay, I actually have a ORBI RBK753S Tri Band Mesh 6, but there is not a selection for that model. I just reinstalled everythng from factory settings again. Set up WPA3 on router, guest network...
The picture looks exactly correct to me. This device is connected via ethernet (the picture of a computer screen) to the Orbi and it has identified the connection during the ethernet handshake by the Orbi's WiFi name. It also detects the two Orbi WiFi SSID's (ORBI753S and ORBI753S-Guest).
I have Windows 10 computers connected to two different Orbi routers. One shows up as "Network" and the other shows up as "ORBI80", which matches the WiFi name on that router. I have no idea why they are different, but they both work.
Orbi WiFi names follow a long-established pattern of a company name plus "something sort of unique". Notice that you have neighbors with WiFi names of NETGEAR93 and TP-LINK_E754. My neighbors have names like ATTg5TqZfi and MySpectrumWiFic8-zg. So many customers just plug in their WiFi and use it that companies have to have a way to prevent neaby houses from having exactly the same WiFi names. With 100 choices (00-99) Netgear seems to think it unlikely that random chance would put two identical names nextdoor to each other. ATT seems to have gone to an extreme (g5TqZfi - looks like every system they manufacture has a unique name). Spectrum seems to be similar (c8-zg implies 52 to the 4th power = 7,311,616 unique names).
Every time I install a new WiFi router, I give it exactly the same WiFi name/password as the old one. That way, all of my devices connect automatically without me doing anything to them. And, if I decide to "go back", I just reinstall the previous router and everything connects again.
Netgear has set up a community forum specifically for the Orbi AX (WiFi 6) products. Most of the people who watch that forum are more likely to have experience with Orbi AX and know how to work it better than those of us who follow this "general Orbi" forum. Might be more likely to find someone who has a solution if the question is posted there:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax
Thank you.
Lcarey596 wrote:
Okay,
I actually have a ORBI RBK753S Tri Band Mesh 6, but there is not a selection for that model.
I just reinstalled everythng from factory settings again.
Set up WPA3 on router, guest network, renamed the devices that are attached. Router works, satellites work, Ok I'm good to go? Nope!
Thought that everything was okay until I tried to attach my husbands Apple SE mobile phone to the network, and it won't connect! It's an Apple SE, older one from a few years ago.
Then I signon to the PC again and look at the network and there are two ORBI's. One that is at the top and connected and one that I cannot connect to? What's up with this?
What is going on? This is the second time that I have reinstalled this system with this same network problem! Is it my hunband's mobile phone that is messing things up?
Please see the PIC that I have attached. I tried to attached 2 pics, but it wouldn't let me. (the pic of network prior to attempting to attach husbands phone, where there is only 1 ORBI)
Thanks