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donawalt
Aug 01, 2022Mentor - Experienced User
Orbi RBS850 stuck on solid blue
Today I saw something I never saw before - from early this morning, about 6 am, until 11am, one of my 2 RBS850's showed solid blue the whole time. Everything else on the network looked fine - logs ok, performance ok, etc...just sitting on blue like it does for 5 minutes or so on a restart. I found this is an old problem that may still happen from time to time:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-satellite-stuck-on-solid-blue/td-p/1349539
I read that the problem seemed to go away with a power cycle, which I did, and it's been fine for about 2 hours now. Also, like others, I had no 2.4GHz devices connected.
(As an aside, I do have a Logitech remote hub about 10 feet from the RBS that connects at 2.4GHz, but it always seems to connect to the RBR850 down in the basement - I have assumed that the signal is strong enough there for a 2.4GHz device that it never needed to switch to the closer satellite, and it works fine, so I never worried about it.)
Hopefully the solid blue light doesn't come back, it's really annoying in a dining room to see that bright blue light! I am posting as well so people know this problem is still in the firmware somewhere...
3 Replies
- FURRYe38Guru - Experienced User
Did you try to log into the RBS web page then see if the front LED turned OFF?
- donawaltMentor - Experienced User
I am pretty sure I did log into all the devices' web pages (RBR and 2 RBR's), just to see if I saw anything unusual. That didn't turn off the blue light unless I was supposed to do something once there.
- FURRYe38Guru - Experienced User
Keep an eye on it. May have been some fluke in the system.