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Satellite MS60 SYNC button and reset
I have 3 pack that includes a router/AP and two satellites. What exactly is the purpose of the reset and SYNC buttons if they are not needed? I have tried EVERY form of factory reset on the sat...
n8lbv wrote:
What exactly is the purpose of the reset and SYNC buttons if they are not needed?
There is a difference between " not needed" and "no use".
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.
The manual explains its use. Just run a search for "sync button".
You may not need it, but there are times when it has its uses. What if you have a satellite that does not connect to its router?
By the way you use the term router/AP. Does this mean that you are using the MR60 in AP mode?
Yes- I'm using it in AP mode at the moment.
The devices seem to be hard configured to mate with the AP/Router.
I am using the term router/AP or AP/Router because it is capable of both.
And when in router mode it is doing both.
If I just called it an "AP" this might confuse some people as much as my own term has.
I see the "hard paired behavior" regardless of which mode I have it (the router) in.
The satellites appear to automatically "pair up & work" regardless of what I set the WPA keys to on both wifi radio bands.
This "pairing" or "SYNC" (without ever pushing the SYNC buttons) seems to bypass the user configured WPA2 keys as if it is using an internal key or is using the default key printed on the label regardless of If that has been changed before powering up the satellites.
I am not understanding why I do not have to pair them or why there are instructions to pair them (sync them).
If they come hard coded to somehow pair without pushing the buttons
This continues to work across factory resets of the satellites and router as well as firmware updates and factory resets after that.
I am not seeing how they could or would become "un synced" or unmatched.
In fact every effort to "un sync" them has failed in my tests.
I am not able to determine what kind of wireless security is being used when they can magically communicate and pair up-
regardless of a factory reset and key change on the router before powering up the satellites after this has been done on the router.
n8lbv wrote:
The devices seem to be hard configured to mate with the AP/Router.
Have you tried pairing an MS60 satellite with a different MR60 router?
I can't tell from your messages,
Only then can you confirm that router and satellites are "hard wired".
No sir I have not.
I do not have easy or free access to another one right now.
I of course thought about this and figured if they are hard coded (which I find very likely) -just like the "unique" hard coded
wifi password that it comes built in.
The true reason for the SYNC switch would be to mate it to a different router.
Or if the satellite was purchased separately and not as a "matched pack" this would be required.
All speculation and educated guess work but likely to be true.
This is the type of information that I feel would be really useful to have in the documentation and it simply is not.
Publishing and being able to know how things like this actually work is very helpful.. when they don't.