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Wow has my RBR850 network gotten unstable!
Ever since I did a monthly power cycle of my router (RBR850) and 2 RBS 850's, things have really gotten unstable. I would always power cycle every 4-6 weeks, not sure I will ever do that again. I di...
Just checked again, router admin page says this, which is probably why devices on upper floors won't connect to WiFi. Also, as a note when I power cycled the router and 1 RBS individually this morning, both came up fine (no color for RBR, RBS was blue).
What is the brand and model# of the switch in between the RBR and RBS?
What happens if you disconnect the switch and let the RBS wirelessly connect to the RBR?
went out for a meeting, came back, WiFi is down for everybody - laptops, devices, etc. Wow this is nasty. Haven't touched the network other than power cycles this morning - did one right before I left of everything in the proper sequence with waiting in between. The switch and router/modem appear fine, I can use the internet through 4th-connected laptops. The switch is a NETGEAR 48-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS348).
What do you recommend - factory rest the two RBSs one at a time (turn the other off)/
Or do you think I should try changing the backhaul password first? How would I safely do that?
Well I ended up going through the procedure to factory reset each RBS one at a time, and now things are working again. I did not do anything to the RBR, as devices in the same room to it connected wirelessly immediately - so it seemed to be working fine. It was the 2 RBSs that were messed up. Wow is that flaky! I hope it stays working now.
FYI, again one of the RBSs would not sync wirelessly on the factory reset even though I had it about 6' from the RBR. I tried the button on the RBR web page with the RBS Sync button, and I tried both buttons on the RBS and RBS. I used an Eth cable to sync it. The other synced fine on wireless after a factory reset.
