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AX4200 daisy chain has stopped working
I have an RBK53 Orbi system, with one router and two satellites. I have the router hard wired to one satellite, and then the third satellite at the far end of the house (but closest to the second sat...
I just did a factory reset, per your instructions, biut when I brought all of the units back online the issue is still there. I can't seem to get the furthest satellite to daisy chain and connect to the nearest satellite. It insists on connecting to the router, with the backhaul connection listed as "Poor". I've tried setting the transmit power control to both 100% and 50%. Is there any way to fix this? Or I am stuck with an underperforming satellite with an unstable connection until a possible future firmware update fixes this?
reverendtom wrote:I just did a factory reset, per your instructions, biut when I brought all of the units back online the issue is still there. I can't seem to get the furthest satellite to daisy chain and connect to the nearest satellite. It insists on connecting to the router, with the backhaul connection listed as "Poor". I've tried setting the transmit power control to both 100% and 50%. Is there any way to fix this? Or I am stuck with an underperforming satellite with an unstable connection until a possible future firmware update fixes this?
For me, daisy chain stopped working with the first 4.x firmware and hasn't been fixed with the later versions. It was working with no issues and no jumping through hoops to get it working while on the original 3.x firmware and subsequent 3.x updates. Clearly NG support knows that the capability used to exist and should be working now because it is one of the first failures that I reported to NG support and it has been an ongoing data collection topic of support sessions with NG second level support. If it wasn't supposed to work, wouldn't they have said that it is no longer a feature of the Orbi?
It's not a catastrophic loss in my set-up because I still have the connectivity I need, but performance is degraded. (about equivalent to the old inexpensive TP-Link extender that I used with my old Nighthawk) In other words, make the capability work again, it's one of the reasons I bought an expensive mesh network - to IMPROVE the PERFORMANCE compared to an old wifi extender.