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Rbs750User
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Oct 19, 2022
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One Laptop Won’t Connect to Network when RBS750 is Plugged In

I’ve had the same set up for ~2years with one RBR750 and 2 RBS750s.  Monday morning one Dell laptop wouldn’t connect to the internet. It connected to the wifi network but with the description “No ...
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    Oct 19, 2022

    After a bunch of trial and error the lack of internet to the Dell didn’t seem to be related to one of the specific satellites. I could reset or disconnect one or the other satellite and the internet would instantly “click on” on the Dell, but as soon as I rebooted it was gone. I tried resetting the devices, moved them around, tried disconnecting devices, assigning a specific IP address to the laptop etc… nothing seemed to solve it. 

    Eventually, I just factory reset the RBR750 and both RBS750s, set the whole system up as new with a new SSID, and that seems to have done the trick. Everything has been working for about 12 hours now.

     

    Who knows….