complete newbie here but regularly follow these posts to see how to resolve issues that continuously arise and not even sure if this is the right post to drop my experience but i've struggled with my orbi system since 2.7.1.60 and the corresponding last 2 ios app updates. I have not had the ghosting access control issues but I was not able to see any devices in device manager in the app but was able to see everything in web gui. I had emailed NG a week or two ago and they responded somewhat quick asking for contact info and time to chat which I knew was going to lead to the standard reset of everything and redownload of ios app so I held out and didn't respond. Today, I got fed up and dove in on my own.
2.7.1.60 appeared to have been released at the same time as the second to last ios update (most recent i have is 2.7.0.28). When i ran ios update, i checked for updates and 2.7.1.60 was there so it automatically ran. It was flawed to say the least and my 2 satellites really never took it, none of my devices were connecting, even though it said it installed correctly. I didn't notice this or check until about a week after the update so I ran the manual updates on router and satellites with the files from Orbi's site then did a power cycle of the main router and satellites. That seemed to fix and allow my devices to connect to the satellites but still couldn't see any devices in device manager on app. I was hoping it would come around with the 2.7.0.28 ios app update this week but it didn't.
Will try to lay out my baseline settings throughout but when i upgraded firmware and app, I noticed that access control was automatically enabled and my guest network SSID was now being broadcast. Neither of those were enabled before the upgrades. I do not and have never used circle or the parental controls.
I hardwire each of my satellites direct to main router through my wall jacks via my wall closet. I read somewhere that disabling daisy-chain topology may increase wifi speeds and given i'm hardwire wheel and spoke it made since to me to disable awhile back.
So this morning, i powercycled and then factory reset via pinhole on the main router and satellites. I connected laptop hardwire to router to run new setup through web gui. It worked suprisingly easier than i remember back in April when i was on a 2 hr call with NG tech when there was a similar firmware upgrade issue. It actually showed the router and satellites as having 2.7.1.60 installed straight away, i'm not sure if that held from before the reset or they automatically downloaded as part of the reset reboot.
Now the fun part, the factory reset re-enabled daisy-chain topology and I noticed that my satellites were not .2 and .3 in their IP addresses and the system seemed to fumble around a little bit trying to link them in a stable fashion but didn't stick around to wait. I disabled daisy-chain which automatically reboots the system. The whole system got very unstable, satellites wouldn't stay connected and the wifi kept disconnecting and reconnecting repeatedly for a good 20/30 min at least but what i did notice is that in some shape, form or fashion the satellites seemed to be trying to get back to .2 and .3 position. I was also still hardwired into the router via laptop which i think had taken either the .2 or .3 position which i thought may not be allowing the system to settle out. When i unplugged laptop from router and they seemed to settle in. However, although router and satellites were showing 2.7.1.60 as current firmware in the web gui and both sattelites were saying connected in attached devices, one of the satellites status kept flipping back and forth saying downloading firmware and/or waiting for connection on the firmware update tab in the web gui. At one point, it said update failed. So I was going to do a manual install but it wouldn't let me connect to the satellite via my hardwire into the other sattelite so after i powercycled the troubled satellite i hardwired into that same troubled satellite and ran web gui, the firmware download issue seemed to resolve itself and now i'm able to see all devices in device manager.
All that being said, I think it may have something to do with the order in which the satellites are connecting to the router to establish their baseline, secured connection. If i was fully wireless, i think i would have tried to use a different SSID after the reset so that all my devices couldn't reconnect before satellite links were established and stabilized. After that, I think you should be able to change SSID and all devices will connect back up.
Only other customized settings I have are IP passthrough from ATT router, reset my Orbi IP handouts to start with 190 (seemed to fix some corporate VPN issues i was having back at beginning of pandemic). I turned off 20/40 coexistence on 2.4 (sorry neighbors) and enabled implicit beamforming and MU-MIMO. I was allowing IPv6 but seemed to create some conflicts on one of my Sony TVs so subsequently turned it off. Lastly, i have armor enabled.
not sure if this helps anyone on here contemplating the reset but figured i'd post it since i know how much i appreciate all the posts from everyone else, they're helpful to those of whose are not as well versed in this arena.
