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Cannot connect RBS850 and RBS750 satellites to RBR850 as soon as I put it in AP mode
Wow, even entering this question felt like navigating a maze - the "model #" dropdown doesn't have any of the literal model#s like RBR850 or anything, you have to figure out that they want you to ent...
I'm seeing other questions on here from people having the same problem (can't connect satellites when router is in AP mode) and some answers from people saying "try X it should work just fine" but ... nobody actually coming back and saying they got it working.
I have now tried for hours, factory resets, deleting the satellites from the router list over and over, hardwiring them, putting them right next to the router, putting them further away, plugging in only one at a time, and so on.
At some point it's hard to miss that if you go through the normal wizard path of "internet plugged into WAN port, everything exactly as Netgear expects" it just works, trivially, everything connects instantaneously, etc.
And if you try to do anything else, it lets you attempt to connect satellites when the router is in AP mode but the interface lags, satellite lights don't flash the way the UI says they should, nothing ever actually works.
I'm starting to realize the Orbi system is just built to work in exactly one way and if I want anything but the super vanilla home network I probably need to do Ubiquiti or Unifi or something that isn't optimized for one simple home use case. :(
- Hi. What are you using as the router? Why not set the RBR850 as the router and set you peripherals as APs?
So my setup is this: My fiber comes into my garage, which is on the ground floor, 60 feet (and a lot of walls and metal) below my home. The orbi router + satellites cover my home very well. But I've built a small shop in the garage and now have some devices down there that I want both online & visible to the devices in my home. For example, I have a 3d printer in the garage and I want to be able to send print jobs to it from my laptop in my home, and they need to be on the same LAN for that.
I have another router, so I wanted to put that router in the garage, and then run ethernet straight from that router to the orbi router and set the orbi router up as an AP off the main router.
I could move the orbi router to the garage but then the two satellites I have wouldn't be enough to cover my whole home. And of course I could buy more satellites, but orbi wifi6 satellites are expensive! And I already have this other router... and it seems like there's no theoretical reason why it shouldn't work to just chain the orbi router off the other (asus) router and set it as an AP to extend the same LAN.I just don't understand why Orbi satellites won't connect to an Orbi router when you set it to AP mode...
- I have my modem on the south side of the house. I the Rbr is 30 feet away in the center on the house hardwired of course. North and West I have the rbs satellites wireless connected to the rbr. I have a cable from the rbr back to the Southside in the room where the modem is and there I have an old netgear r7000p as an access point. Can you set up something like this....? I am thinking the Asus in the garage as the access point? I understand that you want all on the same visible network and that appears to be the thing that makes it difficult to just set Netgear to router mode since the Asus is now the primary.