I actually have the exact same problems with my SXR80 and (5) SXS80 satellites. I bought all the satellite to essentially act as remote switches with wifi satellite capability. The wired backhaul has constant problem. With Tivo units I get constant dropped frames and lost connections. I will completely lose satellites on occasion and have to disconnect and take it to the router and hard-wire reset it by connected directly to the router and after a few hours take it back to its location. It is a **bleep**ty system without doubt. It is actually more stable using WiFi backhaul and not using the ethernet backhaul but this eliminates my purpose of using each satellite as a "remote" switch to plug in each TV/Tivo/AppleTV/Playstation/etc hard wired.

JamesENicholson wrote: The switch is TRENDnet TEG 24-port RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet GREENnet Switch (TEG-S24Dg) This answers one question. Unmanaged switches do not support Link Aggregation. Attempting to use that feature on the router/satellite when the switch does not is simply not going to work. (One would hope that the switch would test the connection and report the incompatibility. Page 153 of the User Manual describes this and remarks how an incorrect setup can cause problems: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/SXK80/Orbi_Pro_WiFi_6_UM_EN.pdf Another potential issue is the "Green Ethernet" feature. I have not experienced this myself, but there have been reports on the forum about Green Ethernet causing problems for router/switch connections. This is just a crazy suggestion, but what happens if only ports 3 or 4 of every Orbi device are connected to the switch? (not the 2.5G port and not ports 1 or 2)

JamesENicholson wrote: It is actually more stable using WiFi backhaul and not using the ethernet backhaul but this eliminates my purpose of using each satellite as a "remote" switch to plug in each TV/Tivo/AppleTV/Playstation/etc hard wired. If the system is more stable when using WiFi backhaul, the devices still can be wired to the satellites? Ethernet backhaul is a feature, not a requirement.

Ethernet backhaul may be a "feature", but it was an expectation and a requirement for how I planned to connect my 6,000 sqft home. I did not want to rely on WiFi backhaul and instead wanted the redundancy of both WiFi backhaul AND ethernet backhaul. I did not want to buy 5-port switches at every location and was willing to invest in satellites that had 2.5Gbe ethernet backhaul with 4 free ethernet ports to essentially act like a remote switch. If it was included by the manufacturer, IT SHOULD WORK!

Agree entirely. Wired backhaul should work. This package is a bit of a puzzle (first time I have looked at the Product Data sheet) https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/SXK80/SXK80_DS.pdf The router has one 2.5G port which must be used as the WAN connection, plus (4) gigabit ports. Thus, satellites can be connected at a maximum of 1gigabit. (unless gigabit ports 1&2 are aggregated into a suitable switch). Each of the satellites has a 2.5G port plus that weird pair of port 1&2 that can be aggregated and ports 3&4 that are simple gigabit. The problem description does not mention any switches in the configuration. Is it correct to conclude that the satellites are connected directly to the router? Which ports are being used? Has the 90 days of 'complimentary support' expired on this purchase? (I would love to hear what Netgear support says about wired backhaul not working.)

Cable Modem connected to the 2.5 gbe wan port of the routerRouter port #2 at 1 gbe connected to switch with 8x2.5gbe ports and 1x10gbe portthe 5 satellites are connected to the switch via their 2.5gbe ports I tried link aggregation of the router port #2 and router port #3 using the onboard aggregation in the netgear firmware and connected into the switch, but this caused the entire system to collapse every time i tried to utilize the built in aggregation. today, one of the satellites had to be disconnected because i could not stream live broadcasts via tivo through it. the satellite and tivo works perfectly when utilizing the wifi backhaul but the tivo mini lost connectivity to the primary tivo every could of minutes. clearly this satellite had some kind of lag. it worked fine for a week or two then it has this problem. occasionally other satellite exhibit the same problem and have to be disconnected and resynced to eliminate lag and stutter when trying to stream video through tivo or appletv. it is crappy to say the least. i am thinking about selling the router and 5 satellites and upgrading to the 960 series, but the 960 series has 1 fewer rj45 port each which really hurts when you are trying to using port 1 for ethernet backhaul, port 2 for your tv, port 3 for an appletv, port 4 for your tivo mini, and port 5 for gaming system. the result would be having to buy switches in each room because i run out of hard wired ports.

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 13, 2024
JamesENicholson wrote:

It is actually more stable using WiFi backhaul and not using the ethernet backhaul but this eliminates my purpose of using each satellite as a "remote" switch to plug in each TV/Tivo/AppleTV/Playstation/etc hard wired.

If the system is more stable when using WiFi backhaul, the devices still can be wired to the satellites? Ethernet backhaul is a feature, not a requirement.
- JamesENicholson
  Aspirant
  Jan 13, 2024
  Ethernet backhaul may be a "feature", but it was an expectation and a requirement for how I planned to connect my 6,000 sqft home. I did not want to rely on WiFi backhaul and instead wanted the redundancy of both WiFi backhaul AND ethernet backhaul. I did not want to buy 5-port switches at every location and was willing to invest in satellites that had 2.5Gbe ethernet backhaul with 4 free ethernet ports to essentially act like a remote switch. If it was included by the manufacturer, IT SHOULD WORK!
  - CrimpOn
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 13, 2024
    Agree entirely. Wired backhaul should work.
    
    This package is a bit of a puzzle (first time I have looked at the Product Data sheet)
    
    https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/SXK80/SXK80_DS.pdf
    
    The router has one 2.5G port which must be used as the WAN connection, plus (4) gigabit ports. Thus, satellites can be connected at a maximum of 1gigabit. (unless gigabit ports 1&2 are aggregated into a suitable switch). Each of the satellites has a 2.5G port plus that weird pair of port 1&2 that can be aggregated and ports 3&4 that are simple gigabit.
    
    The problem description does not mention any switches in the configuration. Is it correct to conclude that the satellites are connected directly to the router? Which ports are being used?
    
    Has the 90 days of 'complimentary support' expired on this purchase? (I would love to hear what Netgear support says about wired backhaul not working.)
- JamesENicholson
  Aspirant
  Jan 14, 2024
  My SRK80 system has the exact same problems. I can use the satellites with ethernet backhaul IF no devices are connected to each satellite OR I can use the satellites as switches IF wired backhaul is disconnected. Otherwise at some point today, tomorrow or 2 weeks from now one or more of the satellites seems to get confused and cannot maintain connection and starts rebooting continuously and occasionally crashes the entire network.
  
  Basically it is a POS.
  
  I was hoping to use each of my satellite as remote switches with ethernet AND wireless backhaul as needed, but these system is just too unstable.
  
  It is super annoying.

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