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donawalt's avatar
donawalt
Mentor - Experienced User
Aug 01, 2022

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

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User

    Did you try to log into the RBS web page then see if the front LED turned OFF? 

     

     

    • donawalt's avatar
      donawalt
      Mentor - 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.

      • FURRYe38's avatar
        FURRYe38
        Guru - Experienced User

        Keep an eye on it. May have been some fluke in the system.