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RBK763 - PHYSICAL NETWORK CONNECTION FOR AX5400
Question regarding the physical connection between Xfinity XB8 Gateway to AX5400 Mesh Router (RBR 760) My home is hardwired to every room with Cat5 ports. Currently: XB8 -> RBR 760 -> NetGea...
Hi Guru,
Thank you for all your help and suggestions. As I was going through and taking some pictures to trace exactly how I was connecting to the patch panel vs the switch, I discovered that I was confusing which cable was going to the switch vs the patch panel. Additionally, I discovered that two of the cables may have had issues and replaced them. The satellites are now connected.
I do notice that every once in a while, the connection drops. I am not sure how or why this is happening and will continue to monitor. I am also curious if you have any knowledge on how to shut off the call the router apparently makes back to NetGear every minute. It is something that I noticed, but have not found a way to keep this from happening.
Would you have any thoughts please? Again, thank you for your help.
ezpzDUDE wrote:
how to shut off the call the router apparently makes back to NetGear every minute. It is something that I noticed, but have not found a way to keep this from happening.
The only method to prevent the Orbi router from connecting with Netgear is to place some device between the router and the internet which examines every data packet and selectively drops some. This is not a trivial undertaking. Frankly, I am not certain how a person would go about doing that.
It is also not clear what the benefit would be.
- If it is something simple, such as an ICMP ('ping') to verify that the internet connection is functioning, the amount of data consumed is so small as to be almost zero. It also might be some sort of "Keep Alive" heatbeat to ensure that the Orbi 'app' is able to make a connection through the Netgear "cloud".
- There was a semi-legitimate reason to block connections when Netgear was forcing firmware updates on users. Now that the Firmware Update module has an explicit option which allows the user to prevent firmware updates, I no longer see much interest in blocking those connections. (When I investigated those, it was two times every 24 hours. not every minute.)
What sort of connection have you observed?