What is new?My wish list:1.Wireless connectivity to Orbi Outdoor WiFi Range Extender (RBS50Y) since it is only wireless with no Ethernet ports.2. Wireless connectivity to RBS50 satellite. It was reported working fine wired but it would be nice to put where you want for the second satellite location.My system is working fine and Attached Devices list is not lost. Speeds are 1Gbps wired and 600Mbps on iphone Xs Max at both R and S rooms while conected wired together.

I agree that enabling wireless connectivity to Gen 1 Orbi will be nice. It will be great to be able to make use of existing HW.I think the wireless connectivity to Gen1 Orbi will come in a maintenance release soon.

Is this a fw already out? Not seeing it on my end. Desperate need of a new one, really having some weird behavior I need help on.

That is the FW that was available under ADVANCED, ADMIN tab and FIRMWARE UPGRADE. If that is not showing, I would recommend a factory reset and subsequent setup where it should check for that. (Sounds like you should do one anyway!) The above is what I did (I actually took an extra step and factory reset AFTER the firmware upgrade just to ensure there were no hanging "chads") I have to say, my AX is working now like a champ including the included RBS-850 sattelite AND two RBS-50 hardwired Sattelites as well that go to a separate building. I have also found that the RBR-850 and RBS-850s have a MUCH wider range of coverage to wireless devices that under the old RBR-50 and RBS-50 were minimal signals... now they are maxed out. Said another way, unless you have separate buidlings you want to cover, there may not be a need for the average home (3,000-5,000 sq/ft) to have additional sattelites. Final note & lessons learned: I had forgotten you have to enable remote management in the GUI before the app would let you do management outside of the LAN (e.g. WAN). I had tried to hard wire to old RBR-50 in AP mode, but the system didnt like that, so I took the RBR out and replaced it with an RBS hardwired, and POOF, Bob's your Uncle! Worked great. The biggest pain so far is transferring ownership of the old RBR-50 to a friend of mine. Why isnt transfer an online function for registered owners?

What behaviors are you seeing? Can you give us some background information? What is the Mfr and model# of the ISP modem the NG router is connected too? What is the size of your home? Sq Ft?What is the distance between the router and satellite(s)? 30 feet is recommended in between them to begin with depending upon building materials when wirelessly connected.sabeens wrote:Is this a fw already out? Not seeing it on my end. Desperate need of a new one, really having some weird behavior I need help on.

Hi, so I’m on a netgear cm1000 Modem connected to cox gig(the coax version, not fiber). I have the rbr850 setup with one rbs850 satellite and it’s in the most current fw downloadable. The biggest bug I’m facing now is Apple TV. Of wired they are fine. If over WiFi, which three of mine are, the major streaming apps play for a few minutes and then stop. After that, none of the apps will stream until a Apple TV reboot. Once I do that, it’s a rinse repeat scenario, it stops playing yet again. What’s weird is a Speedtest on the Apple TV will work as will loading up any pages on something like Netflix or Hulu. It’s the actual playing of video that halts. The Apple TV’s are all latest model before the 4K model and on tv os 13.2. I have reset each from scratch and no luck. Sounds like a weird one I know but what has me looking at the orbi as the culprit is when I hook up my rbr50 and rbs50 satellite setup that I upgraded from, no issues, works like a charm. Before this, I was wondering if Apple TV os was buggy but simple googling doesn’t reproduce my issues in the searches and the fact that the older system works flawlessly has me a little frustrated.I will open up an official ticket as well.House is 3000sq ft, router on one end, satellite hardwired on other end.

Orbi WiFi 6 Router AX6000 / RBR850 New Firmware V3.1.6.11_1.1.5

25 Replies

ekhalil
Master
Nov 03, 2019
I agree that enabling wireless connectivity to Gen 1 Orbi will be nice. It will be great to be able to make use of existing HW.
I think the wireless connectivity to Gen1 Orbi will come in a maintenance release soon.
- sabeens
  Aspirant
  Nov 05, 2019
  Is this a fw already out? Not seeing it on my end. Desperate need of a new one, really having some weird behavior I need help on.
  - Chuck_M
    Mentor
    Nov 05, 2019
    That is the FW that was available under ADVANCED, ADMIN tab and FIRMWARE UPGRADE.
    
    If that is not showing, I would recommend a factory reset and subsequent setup where it should check for that. (Sounds like you should do one anyway!)
    
    The above is what I did (I actually took an extra step and factory reset AFTER the firmware upgrade just to ensure there were no hanging "chads")
    
    I have to say, my AX is working now like a champ including the included RBS-850 sattelite AND two RBS-50 hardwired Sattelites as well that go to a separate building.
    
    I have also found that the RBR-850 and RBS-850s have a MUCH wider range of coverage to wireless devices that under the old RBR-50 and RBS-50 were minimal signals... now they are maxed out. Said another way, unless you have separate buidlings you want to cover, there may not be a need for the average home (3,000-5,000 sq/ft) to have additional sattelites.
    
    Final note & lessons learned: I had forgotten you have to enable remote management in the GUI before the app would let you do management outside of the LAN (e.g. WAN).
    
    I had tried to hard wire to old RBR-50 in AP mode, but the system didnt like that, so I took the RBR out and replaced it with an RBS hardwired, and POOF, Bob's your Uncle! Worked great.
    
    The biggest pain so far is transferring ownership of the old RBR-50 to a friend of mine. Why isnt transfer an online function for registered owners?
- thedak
  Apprentice
  Mar 07, 2020
  Hi, how did you get your RBS50 to connect to our RBR850? I have a RBR850 with two wireless RBS850's and I tried to cable an older RBS50 but it wasn't recognized. Just came up with the default router ssid and wouldn't sync, etc? thanks!
  - Chuck_M
    Mentor
    Mar 07, 2020
    thedak wrote:
    Hi, how did you get your RBS50 to connect to our RBR850? I have a RBR850 with two wireless RBS850's and I tried to cable an older RBS50 but it wasn't recognized. Just came up with the default router ssid and wouldn't sync, etc? thanks!
    My 2 x RBS50s are hard wired back through a NG switch to the RBR850.
    
    Just plug them in and they will be recognized.
    
    Wireless doesnt work (yet) for RBR850 to RBS50 backhaul.
FURRYe38
Guru
Nov 12, 2019
New FW availalbe if anyone wants to give it a go:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/New-RBR850-RBS850-Firmware-Version-3-2-7-2/td-p/1823309/jump-to/first-unread-message
- Chuck_M
  Mentor
  Nov 12, 2019
  Thanks, will give it a go after work today and report findings.
  - FURRYe38
    Guru
    Nov 12, 2019
    Me too. :smileywink:

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