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ORBI RBK50 ethernet backhaul is not working - help
I have an existing RBK50 setup with 2 RBS50 satellites connecting via wireless to the RBR50, this setup is working great, but because of working from home, i've had to set up a home office in the bas...
OrbiBenR wrote:
I have the GS908 as well. I had to disable the loop back monitoring to get it to work.
OrbiBenR Thanks for the advice! i just turned off loopback on all my GS908 (there are 3 of them) in my home network, connected an ethernet cable to the RBS50, and i'm still seeing 5G connection on the web UI on the RBR50, as well as a purple dot using the mobile app. The router continues to work, but i'm not sure if its actually using the ethernet backhaul.
all i did was turn the RBS50 off, plug in a cable to the switch, then turn it back on. I'm hoping it would just pick up the ethernet backhaul, but it didn't - is there a different way to do this? i don't want to reset the entire mesh if possible.
thanks
I disabled all IGMP, I disabled all energy savings, I disabled diagnostics, and disabled loop back. Then I just power cycled the network switch and the image in the Orbi app changes from dotted line (wireless backhaul) to solid line (wired backhaul). Note my Orbi Voice is wired but I don’t have the RBS in a room yet with Ethernet so I need to wire that room first.
