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I'm curious whether the backhaul has to be connected via one of the 1G ports.
I have the same issue with these in an office. I'm curious whether the backhaul has to be connected via one of the 1G ports. Check out the image with them connected via a switch and it's not using th...
My mistake, I had the satellites connected via the 2.5G LAN ports and the router by the 10G WAN port. It all worked normally that way, except the ethernet backhaul which made updates a pain. I switched to the 2.5 LAN port on the router and the ethernet backhaul is working as expected.
That Netgear article is simply showing options for wiring router and satellites. The yellow port in those images is the internet (WAN) port. There is only one model of Orbi router that has a 2.5G port in addition to gigabit Ethernet ports: the RBR960. When that model came out, users almost immediately realized that connecting that port to a 2.5G switch allowed them to create a backhaul network that consisted of all 2.5G connections.
So, no. The backhaul does not have to use only the gigabit ports, but the only system that has anything faster on the LAN side is the 960 model.