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FURRYe38's avatar
Jun 25, 2025

RBS Failed to Connect via ETH BH after being Wirelesly Connected

I'll post something I found today here as well to keep track of issues on this version of FW. 

After 8 plus days of good uptime and both RBS wirelessly connected, I figured I would get the RBS ethernet connected. 

 

All as good up to the point where one RBS failed to ethernet connect and would not until a full power cycle was performed on the one RBS.

RBR971>XS505M>DR-RBS on 10Gb ports all the way thru.

 

Dining room DR-RBS failied to sync after ethernet was connected to the 10Gb LAN port in back:

Basement BM-RBS connected via ethernet soon after I had connected the Dining room RBS fine and had front BLUE LED then OFF. 

 

I disconnected the Dining room RBS from the ethernet connection in back while still powered ON. Saw the front LED start blinking WHITE, then turned on solid PINK. Then after a minute there, turned OFF. I looked at both Orbi app and RBR WEB UI and DR RBS was still disconnected and not seen as connected over wifi. Could not access the RBS web page. 

 

Power cycled the DR RBS OFF then back ON. 

Finally the DR RBS wirelessly synced to the RBR:

I then connected the DR RBS to ethernet again in the back and with out any front LED coming on at all, the RBS showed as synced via ethernet to the RBR:

 

FW was updated via AU on 6-19-2025. One power cycle on the day of was all. No factory reset. 

Would be a call generator. 

 

I'll monitor now for operation with RBS ethernet connected BH. 

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