Orbi AX6000 RBR850 WAN AND LAN PORTS NOT WORKING On Router AFTER FIRMWARE UPDATE

---

ETowers wrote:

"To avoid conflict with your ISP your router's IP address has been updated to 10.0.0.1"

---

Glad that your WiFi is working again.  This specific question has an answer.

When the Internet Protocol (IP) scheme was invented all those years ago, the designers decided to set aside some IP addresses designated as "Private". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network   These addresses cannot be reached through the internet.  Organizations (or individual customers) who have been assigned a public IP address can create their own Local Area Network (LAN) where devices are assigned private IP addresses.  Their routers use Network Address Translation (NAT) to make it appear that all of those devices appear to come from that single public IP address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation 

The default behavior of most residential routers, including Netgear routers, is to create a LAN using 192.168.1.x as the IP subnet. (for a total of 254 unique IP addresses).  No one in their wildest imagination believed that a single person would ever have that many devices on their home network!

But, what happens if the WAN port on the customer router is assigned an IP address of 192.168.1 (something)???

That means the LAN subnet cannot possibly be the default.  So what should it be?

• Netgear could have chosen to use 192.168.2.x (or 3.x, or 4.x, or...)
• Netgear could have chosen to use any of the hundreds of private IP subnets.
• Instead, Netgear chose to use 10.0.0.x

Thus, your ISP device is obviously a router and has assigned an IP address to your Orbi that is in the 192.168.1.x subnet.  In response, the Orbi has created a Local Area Network (LAN) using the 10.0.0.x IP subnet.

This means that you have "two routers" in between your personal devices and the internet. (The ISP router and the Orbi router).  This is known is the industry as a "Double NAT" condition. (do an internet search)

This has no effect on you unless you happen to need a specific application that is affected by Double NAT. For example:

• You want to use OpenVPN to reach your home network from the internet.
• You want to access local devices from the internet (such as media servers)
• You want to use certain internet gaming.
• (Check those internet references for more examples).

If you happen to need one of those specific applications, then you will have to deal with the Double NAT.  If not, then "let it go".