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carpeDiem3
Jun 08, 2022Aspirant
RBR750 wifi drops all the time every 2 minutes or less
I am using 2 Orbi RBR750's with a total of 4 satellites, both of the RBR750s are used as access points connected to separate ports on my Firewalla. with separate IP ranges and isolated from each othe...
DarkNet
Jun 09, 2022Apprentice
Just curious. Why do you use two RBR’s? Why not one RBR and utilize the guest network on it?
- carpeDiem3Jun 09, 2022Aspirant
@ DarkNet
Just curious. Why do you use two RBR’s? Why not one RBR and utilize the guest network on it?
I use a firewall/ router to manage the entire network , if I use ORBI as another Router it wont give me insight into the network as it is not showing me a complete picture. My Firewall manages all groups/rules/VLANS/IP reservations/DHCP/security etc . So for that reason I use orbi as an AP and I cant use it as a guest network. interestingly enough I tried that once and all guests get an IP which does not show up on the FW. So using the second AP / Orbi Router is for another network port on a guest Vlan.
Not all devices on Wireless have the same rights on my network.
Hope that explains that a bit