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poseidon7903
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Dec 27, 2020

Orbi RBR850 Wired Backhaul

To start, I'm not a huge fan of Netgear products.  I've had horrible experience in their performance and support.  That said, I've done research and in my search for a great WiFi 6 setup, the Orbi RBR850 kept coming up, so I decided to try it.  I've now spent 48 hours trying to get this system to work the way it should.  And I'm only just now getting there.  AT&T definitely didn't help in this process as using their gig modem requires enabling DMZPlus.  Not the easiest thing to find when you have no idea it's necessary.  I'm coming from a Google Wifi Setup which was flawless.  I do have a pretty heavily utilized Wireless network with near 100 devices connected.  In my setup of the system, I've got both of my satellites connected and sync'd, but even though they have a network cable connected running to an unmanaged switch which then connects to the router which then connects to the pace modem, it only shows a 5ghz connection in the app and in the web portal.  Shouldn't this say "Wired"?  Is there something I need to do to get them to be recognized as a wired backhaul?  

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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru
    Dec 28, 2020

    Please post about this over in the Orbi AX forum:
    https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax

    Thank you.

    poseidon7903 wrote:

    To start, I'm not a huge fan of Netgear products.  I've had horrible experience in their performance and support.  That said, I've done research and in my search for a great WiFi 6 setup, the Orbi RBR850 kept coming up, so I decided to try it.  I've now spent 48 hours trying to get this system to work the way it should.  And I'm only just now getting there.  AT&T definitely didn't help in this process as using their gig modem requires enabling DMZPlus.  Not the easiest thing to find when you have no idea it's necessary.  I'm coming from a Google Wifi Setup which was flawless.  I do have a pretty heavily utilized Wireless network with near 100 devices connected.  In my setup of the system, I've got both of my satellites connected and sync'd, but even though they have a network cable connected running to an unmanaged switch which then connects to the router which then connects to the pace modem, it only shows a 5ghz connection in the app and in the web portal.  Shouldn't this say "Wired"?  Is there something I need to do to get them to be recognized as a wired backhaul?