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Yld2rob
Luminary
Mar 08, 2022

RBK963 Mystery Satellites appearing when using wired backhaul

So I set up my new Orbi system first wirelessly. The orbi app and the website shows one router and 2 Satellies. Makes sense right? Not if I connect ethernet to the router and satellies via via CAT7 c...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Mar 29, 2022

Any progress on this? 

Yld2rob wrote:

So I set up my new Orbi system first wirelessly. The orbi app and the website shows one router and 2 Satellies. Makes sense right? Not if I connect ethernet to the router and satellies via via CAT7 cables. I get 2 satellies and then one or 2 more satellies appear as Satellie-1 and satellie-2. What is going on sometimes I am able to remove these "Ghost" satellies, but they just reappear. I have the router and the 2 satellies connected into a unmanaged switch. See the photo for the current network map. What is going on?