SXR30 Orbi Pro Mini vlan isolation issues on wireless 3 with split ssid enabled.

DaneA 

Thanks for the reply. 

After the past few weeks of headaches and frustration, I'm not really interested in messing with beta firmwares when the released firmware feels like it is barely beta worthy as it is.

This device is... frustrating to say the least. I've had issues with MAC access lists, even worse dibilitating issues with the standard access control, non-working client and network isolation, random reboots of the satellites, the unit spamming DNS thousands of times an hour, DynDNS failing to update after about a day, traffic meter causing massive instability, and it frankly has an extremely lackluster set of firewall controls.

The MAC access list mistakenly allows wireless devices to randomly connect as the device thinks they are wired randomly. The wireless devices even show up in the connected devices are wired.

The access control tab TWICE had devices I could not modify at all. They were locked to disabled and flat out could not be enabled or deleted. This required yet a few more device resets. I don't trust in using it, and that really hurts my impression of this system.

I've already stated my issues with client and device isolation. They were never resolved.

Both satellites would randomly reboot. This required resets of both satellites, but they seem fine in AP mode.

Pi-hole shows the device hammering DNS thousands of times an hour, even with dns and dhcp disabled on the router.

DynDNS would flat out fail. It would have to be disabled, and re-enabled to start working again.... for a short while. Doing some research, it looks like this has been an issue on netgear routers for YEARS, and it still isn't resolved.

The traffic meter makes the device unusable. It butchers speeds, and causes reboots.

And why, for the love of anything, can we not change the login timeout???

After banging my head against the wall in frustration with not getting things to work correctly after several resets, and reconfigs, I decided to take a different approach. I repurposed my old desktop into a pfsense router, and put the Orbi in AP mode. This is quite frustrating since the Orbi is advertised as a business class setup, and that it may be in AP mode if the access control stuff actually functioned, but my ancient WRT54G had far more robust options than this. Even the Verizon 3100 gave it a run for the money with options, and blows it away in regards to stability.

I could have went with a different, and cheaper mesh AP setup if that was all I wanted. 

So the bottom line is, I wouldn't recommend this device to anyone. It doesn't do many things it should, and it isn't reliable enough for a critical business environment in my opinion.

My advice to anyone with a device still within the return window that stumbes upon this thread while coming across ANY of the issues I stated is to immediately box the product back up and return it. It's too late for me... Save yourself.