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Another bug? Router does not see the manual IP address
Check this image out. I have my MacBook Pro set with a manual address - 192.168.1.154. Yet the router admin web page Attached Devices, and the Orbi app, show it as 192.168.1.22 - an automatic IP/DHC...
Assuming that Manual IP refers to a Static IP (along with subnet mask,gateway IP address, DNS IP address) that was defined on the MacBook Pro, there is a chance that the Orbi has remembered information, having previously used DHCP to assign 192.168.1.132 (not 22 - perhaps a typo?).
Could you please set up the Static IP on the MacBook Pro, then restart the Orbi router?
(This will clear the Orbi ARP tables.)
Then connect the MacBook Pro to the Orbi WiFi at 6G and report what the Orbi and MacBook Pro report for the IP address.
CrimpOn you nailed it! After a reboot the router admin web page and Orbi app show the Mac WiFi on .154! I then put the Mac on 6E from 5. No change, all fine. For awhile I found on my 2 Macs if 6E was on, IPv6 failed. I'll keep an eye on that, IPv6 is working now! Maybe the reboot helped that too.
Here's one odd thing - in the router admin web page, and Orbi app, both Mac's WiFi connections show as "wired". This is an old problem I think, so I am not going to worry about it unless there is an obvious fix/correction I can make.
Thanks CrimpOn !
- donawalt , my WiFi 7 mesh system has been doing that Wired icon status off/on randomly since I installed the system in late May.
If my iPhone 1st connects to a satellite (e.g a bedroom satellite in the morning after I “wake-up” phone and it first connects to mesh WiFi, the Orbi App shows a WiFi icon and correct connection to the satellite (on 5Ghz now that I disabled 6Ghz, but App did the same thing with 6Ghz connection).
When I go to the office (where Router is located) or the kitchen (adjacent to the office), the icon 1st changes to the RJ45 icon (my satellites are wired) “connected to the router”. It takes various amounts of time for the App to update to the incorrect icon (it is not “real-time”). Sometimes I have to completely close the App, and reopen it just to get the “rj45 icon shown connected to the router).
With the iPhone now shown “wired” to the router, it no longer shows up with a WiFi icon (or the connect band, 5/6 GHz) to the original Satellite the iPhone connected to. This causes an issue (even while I’m on the iPhone with NG Level 2!) when I’m asked, are you connected to the router with 5 or 6 GHz band? “I don’t know, the App shows a wired connection which doesn’t use WiFi”!
After some period of time (varies) when I look at the App again, icon will have changed to “WiFi” and it shows the correct band.
Other times I have to either, stay on the Router end of the house, and either turn iPhone WiFi off/on by going to the IoT SSID and then back to main SSID, or closing the Orbi App, wait a minute, and then re-opening it.
If I move around inside the house frequently and the iPhone does “successfully” change (hand-off node-to-node) and I’m not in the “dead area” (where my iPhone shows a WiFi connection to the main SSID, but it’s either “flipping” in/out of 5G cellular or unable to do anything using an internet connection (getting it to connect sometimes as simple as “airplane” mode, or switching to IoT SSID then back to main SSID, or sometimes I have to physically get within 3’ of the router and doing the “work-arounds” to re-connect to the Mesh. And this is a 2000 sq ft rectangular single story wood frame house with 3 WiFi 7 mesh nodes.
Since the App never seems correct, I rarely even look at it now. In fact, since I’ve gone to 5Ghz band full time, I haven’t verified the RJ45 icon issue, so I’ll have to check today and see if the App does the same “wired” status for my iPhone on 5Ghz band.
This morning (1st time) when I took iphone off of charger in the bedroom after waking up, it showed I was in 5G cellular (???) not WiFi, and there’s an Orbi Satellite mounted 6’ high on one of the bedroom walls so the iPhone was no more than 10-12’ away from the mesh node. After 20-30 seconds, the display changed from cellular to WiFi, but that concerns me because if it’s now flipping to cellular in the middle of the night, that’s bad! My ATT cellular connection here is so weak/poor, ATT sometimes sends cellular voice calls directly to voice mail (my iPhone doesn’t ring once) as my cell connection from home to the ATT tower (located adjacent to a major Interstate) is competing with strong cell signals from vehicular traffic.
I’ll watch the “incorrect icon” App issue today and see if it still happens with 5Ghz band, but I believe it still will occur. I don’t think correcting an IPV6 issue (I have that disabled in the RBE 971 by turning off IPV6 DHCP) will correct the 971/970 mesh node incomplete/drop/messy hand-off issue.
