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Netgear WAN port issues (Nighthawk and ORBI)
My Nighthawk XR500 fails to connect via its WAN port to my Huawei ONT. I have exactly the same problem with The Netgear Orbi router (model RBR50v2)) that I own. My older TPlink (AC750) and ASUS (RT-A...
Victory has been declared!!! :-)
I installed the unmanaged switch and hey-presto the Netgear Routers now establish connections with the Huawei ONT. Many thanks Netduma-Fraser for the recommendation. Months of frustration and unnecessary expenditure wasted on a problem that was solved by a $50 switch - sigh. Hopefully others in this community suffering similar issues will benefit from this post.
As an aside, I tried the other recommendation - factory reset the router while it is connected to the ONT. Unfortunately, this did not work.
Thanks again for your help. It is much appreciated.
If you go to http://routerlogin.net/debug.htm and tick the option WAN Port mirror to LAN port1 and then treat LAN Port 1 as the WAN port and connect that directly to the ONT do you get a connection then?
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try that this tomorrow morning (07h00 GMT time) and post an update on this forum once done.