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Enabling Guest network impacts main wifi users receiving 169.x.x.x
Hi, I am experiencing very unusual behavior on my RBRE960 and 2x RBSE960 (now with ethernet back hauls) I have deduced that when I enable guest wifi, Iphones reconnecting to my main wifi, are s...
Hi, The satellites are connected by ethernet back haul to a Netgear JGS524PE.
Ok that's a smart managed switch, these kinds of switches are known to cause problems in between the RBR and RBS.
Any chance you can put in a non managed switch? NGs GS105 or GS305 series would work.
I had sought out the Netgear Smart switches, to start leveraging the VLAN capabilities of the Orbi963.
Who else has had these problems?
Common problem when using any kind of smart/managed switch with ethernet connected RBS. Those switches don't allow full traffic between the RBR and RBS when non managed switches do.
is the RBR in router mode or AP mode?
Hi,
The RBRE960 is in Router mode. It is responsible for DHCP and I need to utilise the IoT features.
If I put it into AP mode only then I lose IoT, and Guest capability.
The Netgear smart switch is operating in dumb switch mode currently. No VLANS have been set up, however my intent is to mirror the VLAN setting within the RBRE960 and have the Netgear Smart Switch JGS524PE manage the VLAN traffic, hence reducing the traffic load from the RBRE960.
GLO wrote:
I had sought out the Netgear Smart switches, to start leveraging the VLAN capabilities of the Orbi963.
Orbi residential WiFi routers, including the 960, have no VLAN capability. The only VLAN feature is to support IP television features offered by certain Internet Service Providers. See page 92 of the User Manual:
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBKE963/RBRE960_RBSE960_UM_EN.pdf
