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New - RBR850 / RBS850 Firmware Version v4.6.7.5 Released
No Release Notes at this time. I'll see if I can get some.
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I think I posted this before - but I've also seen the same behaviour with "Hop Count" on my satellites.
My wireless satellite always displays a hop count of 1.
My wired satellite was showing 255. I thought it might be because it was behind a switch, so I reconfigured my system to make the Orbi the first device in the chain. The hop count following the reboot was 1, but a couple of days later it was back to 255, so I think it's the reboot that reset it to 1 rather than the presence of the switch. I don't know what this setting means. Having other devices running off the Orbi satellite's ethernet ports appeared to make the satellite much less stable (I almost immediately started seeing reboots, after a couple of weeks of stable operation) so I reverted the system to the way it was previously.
Also, to confirm what others are reporting, I also have AnalticOptinOptout set to "Enable" (no way to change this as far as I can see) and I'm also seeing the memory increase to be linear at around 10MB per day.
maybe 255 is the code for a wired connection? On my daisy chained satelites, the direct connection is 1 and the daisy chained is 2, which makes some logical sense to me!
Both my RBS are wired and both only show hop count of 1. My Basement RBS is Daisy chained behind 3 LAN switches.
Dd852 wrote: Garwoofoo
maybe 255 is the code for a wired connection? On my daisy chained satelites, the direct connection is 1 and the daisy chained is 2, which makes some logical sense to me!
A day after reboot of RBS-850 satellites, my wired and wireless all show hops of 1. Will continue to monitor.
I am pretty sure this is exactly what it sounds like it should be... the number of hops (over satellites) it takes to get from that satellite to the RBR.
255 probably means unreachable or some form of error.
I dont think there is a distinction between wired and wireless.
Does the debug page "work" when the satellite and router are in AP mode? Asking for a friend!
Yes.
Interesting, a friend of mine's RBS-850 will absolutely NOT go into debug page... just a white screen. It has the firmware version in both router and satellite of V4.6.7.5, but regardless of browser, (and cleared cache!), it will NOT show any debug screen.
Next step I suppose is factory reset and give it another shot. Will report back.
Anyone else seen this on an RBS850?Ok hopefully a reset will fix.
IT's how I checked for that RBS750 that someone posted about yesterday. Both my RBS display the debug page fully. I used MS Edge here.
For those of you using the Orbi Resource tracker, the last few days have been interesting with an unexplained downward trend of memory usage while CPU load remains constant.
I am wondering if the Memory Usage may be affected by something on the Netgear Server side...
It is probably no coincidence that we started talking about this and several of us -- simultaneously on the same day (beginning on 10 Feb) -- reported a drop in memory usage after days and days of steady increase.
Has anyone else noticed the same trend?
Mines been on a uptick since I started.
CPU Load: 15.19%
Memory Usage(Used/Total): 358 MB/874 MB
System Uptime: 3 days 20:21:41
Might put up your new updated shread sheet on a dropbox share...
Chuck_M wrote:A day after reboot of RBS-850 satellites, my wired and wireless all show hops of 1. Will continue to monitor.
I am pretty sure this is exactly what it sounds like it should be... the number of hops (over satellites) it takes to get from that satellite to the RBR.
255 probably means unreachable or some form of error.
There definitely does seem to be a difference between wired and wireless: my wireless satellite never deviates from 1 but my wired satellite shifts from 1 to 255 every time shortly following a reboot.
I will say though that my system is performing very well right now, after making sure the satellite is the last link in the chain and changing the RTS/CTS to 500. I've been stress-testing the problematic satellite as much as possible in as many ways as I can - long videocalls, PC streaming via GeForce Now, even using AirLink on a Quest 2 VR headset at maximum bandwidth - and I've not had a single hitch with it. So despite this hop count question and the steady memory creep on the router, I'm pretty happy with my Orbi at the moment.
