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Wired satellite not showing up on Attached Devices
I'm having this exact issue, and it's driving me insane. Just picked up a RBK963. Everything working great, but I need to put the router into AP mode. So I did that, and all was well (as long as I us...
You are SO LUCKY. (two Ethernet cables from the patch panel to each room.)
The correct connection sequence is:
Fiber ONT to Edgerouter. (if they are co-located, then no patch panel)
Edgerouter to Orbi WAN port using one Ethernet cable.
Orbi LAN port using the other Ethernet cable back to 16 port switch.
Connect everything else to the 16 port switch.
The key is that the link between Edgerouter and Orbi WAN port must not go through the switch.
Let me refresh the question, actually.
You say, "The key is that the link between Edgerouter and Orbi WAN port must not go through the switch."
Does that mean this is important only for the main Orbi, or is that true for both the satellites, too?
That page really isn't helpful, unfortunately. If I connect my main RBR to the LAN port, I get no Internet at all in AP mode (magenta light and no access to the outside world). It has to be connected to the WAN port.
What that page is showing is that Orbi systems expect that satellites can be 'wired' only to their LAN ports.
The WAN port is always connected to "the internet".
That page is not showing what the WAN port is connected to because the WAN port is always connected to the internet source (ISP modem, ISP ONT, ISP combination modem/router/WiFi, customer pfSense or Firewalla, customer Edgerouter.... whatever.)
By putting a switch between the Edgerouter and the Orbi, many people decide to connect satellites to the switch rather than to the Orbi LAN ports. The router thus cannot "see" the satellites.
