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IP Address DIsplay/Attached Device Display 870 Series
Just chiming in here with just one of many issues I have been having with my Orbi 870/871 devices. I am set up in AP mode (we wont get into the issues with this) and, looking at the attached device...
From just a single satellite. More devices on others show similar. 1st 2 are and iPhone and iWatch. .30 is a Nest Thermostat, The next one if a Bose Soundtouch, and the last is an Amazon Firestick. It's not just iPhones.
Do these devices appear correctly on the RBRs web page?
If this is from the RBS web page, there has been some odd behaviors around what the RBS report. I would agree, should be reporting correctly if all devices and names and MAC addresses are aligned.
Phones and pads, make sure you disable MAC address randomizer on them...
jeffrymaynard wrote:
From just a single satellite. More devices on others show similar. 1st 2 are and iPhone and iWatch. .30 is a Nest Thermostat, The next one if a Bose Soundtouch, and the last is an Amazon Firestick. It's not just iPhones.
They do not show up on the main RBR devices connected page. Example, the SoundTouch would be .111 and called Little Bose and it is missing. So are others.
Please describe how this 870 system is connected.
It comes as a surprise to many users that Netgear designed the Orbi system for the router to "see" satellites only when they are connected to the router with WiFi or wired to the router LAN ports.
People with sophisticated systems often find it convenient to connect both the router and the satellites directly to the primary network appliance (firewall, router, etc.) or to a switch that is connected to it. Thus, the satellite are "sort of" connected to the router through the router WAN port. There are numerous conversations on the forum demonstrating how this does not work and renders the router information display inaccurate.
