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Orbi WiFi 6 Router AX6000 / RBR850 New Firmware V3.1.6.11_1.1.5
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 wa...
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.
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!
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.
- Thanks! Interesting experience. My rbr850 is in AP mode wired into another router. I pin reset the rbs50 and cabled it to one of the LAN ports on the back of the rbr850 and it recognized and configured it perfectly and showed the third satellite.
I then moved it to another area and cabled it to one of my standard router ports on the same switch as the rbr850 and although it lit up blue the rbr850 doesn't list it in the attached devices anymore. (web gui or app) - it did the first time.
