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White pulsing light a couple of times every day RBK50 AC3000
Hello everyone,
I did buy this AC3000 system for quite some money and i am not pleased at all. The problem i have been having is that some times everyday the ORBI system starts to pulsing white...
Hello Furrye38,
Thank you for the quick answer.
I have a: Allied Telesis AT iMG1525
I dont belive this have a built in router, it have five LAN ports and every item i connect (Home alarm is one of them) this recives a uniqie IP adress.
We dont live in in range of any outher wifi signals, have about 400 feet to closest neighbors. Thank you for this tip tho.
My home if the online calculator dont lie to me: 2200sqft (200m2) and the sat and router are about 8 meters apart (close) on diffrent levels. Orbilogin says i have a good connection to backhaul statuis.
Thank you in advance.
Your Modem is a gateway, thus it has a built in router.
Couple of options to test:
1. Bridge the modem fully so that the orbi will be come the main router and gatway.
2. If the modem can't be bridged, use it's DMZ for the IP address the Orbi router gets from the modem/router.
3. Keep the modem in router mode and configure the Orbi router for AP mode.
FURRYe38 wrote:
Your Modem is a gateway, thus it has a built in router.
Couple of options to test:
1. Bridge the modem fully so that the orbi will be come the main router and gatway.
2. If the modem can't be bridged, use it's DMZ for the IP address the Orbi router gets from the modem/router.
3. Keep the modem in router mode and configure the Orbi router for AP mode.
Question about #2. What happens when the Modem/router is rebooted? If it is using DHCP, isn't it possible that the Orbi will get a different IP address that isn't in the DMZ, and more importantly, something else (like a laptop) could get the previous IP address that was put in the DMZ and thus have no wirewall protection?
He can use a reserved IP address ON the modem for the router which I could have suggested as well to avoid any new IP addresses.
Since the Orbi router already has a firewall, theres no need for two, also the DMZ helps avoid double NAT issues as well. Would be no different if the Orbi was connected to a stand alone modem that doesn't have a firewall.
tsig wrote:
FURRYe38 wrote:
Your Modem is a gateway, thus it has a built in router.
Couple of options to test:
1. Bridge the modem fully so that the orbi will be come the main router and gatway.
2. If the modem can't be bridged, use it's DMZ for the IP address the Orbi router gets from the modem/router.
3. Keep the modem in router mode and configure the Orbi router for AP mode.
Question about #2. What happens when the Modem/router is rebooted? If it is using DHCP, isn't it possible that the Orbi will get a different IP address that isn't in the DMZ, and more importantly, something else (like a laptop) could get the previous IP address that was put in the DMZ and thus have no wirewall protection?