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RBR850 Satellite connection issues again
So late last night before I went to bed I noticed now the 3rd floor RBS had no WiFi connections! So this morning I researched it - as all the devices seemed to be happy. In short, **this time*...
cabling is Cat 6A modem -> router.
Will do!
What's the CAT# cabling between the RBR, Switches and RBS?
RBR and switches is 6A. RBss and switches is 5e as it is older and runs through the walls.
One more update - all Wifi working great, BUT Orbi and Attached Devices on router web page are nuts. Just looking at Attached devices, it has all of these as WIRED - iPhone, 2 Macs, 1 Dell Windows PC, 1 Homepod; and my iPad is not showing at all. The 3rd floor RBS has nothing connected, yet WiFi is working great up there - 1 Mac just got 700 Mbps in the speed test. So my conclusion is for this issue, everything is connecting fine, but the NG reporting across the board is NUTS.
Ok. Cabling in the walls and 5e would be something that could be a factor here.
I would run the RBS wirelessly for a few days to see if the issue reappears and compare.
Something definitely odd going on there.
Today I have a number of devices on the third floor that are reported as connected to the router 3 floors below. Signal strength and speed tests say that is false, they are running fast and signal strength is what you would expect for being connected to a satellite 10 feet away. I learned to today to check the "BSSID", which shows the access point connected to - and it appears they are all connected to the third floor.
But here is glitch #1 - the 3rd floor satellite ends in 82:32:9C, but the BSSID is 82:32:9E! That's not any other device. What is that, that's being connected to? It sure seems like the 3rd floor satellite.
Second - both the Orbi app and the routers web page show my iPad, iPhone, 2 Macs, and a Windows PC all as "hard wired" even though they are absolutely on WiFi.