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Orbi RBK53 and Comcast XB3 Set-Up -- It's Finally Working but is It Correct?
Yesterday I replaced my aging Apple Airport Base Station (and Time Capsule) with an Orbi RBK53 (router and two satellites) from Costco. My ISP is Comcast via an XB3. Powering up and placing the Orbis...
Where are you seeing Comcast? Is this the SSID list of available wifi names to connect to on your devices?
If so, then the wifi radios on the ISP Modem have NOT been fully disabled...
Both are in the drop-down "Network Name" list when I open Network Preferences on my Mac or IOS device. Accessing the inner workings of the XB3 don't offer an option to "turn off the wi-fi" so I concluded you might have been referring to the Comcast "hotspot" feature. I found a link in my Comcast account to turn it off but it keeps saying "something is wrong, try again later" and remains enabled. In any case, I'll go back and make certain my Orbi is in AP mode but I swear that it told me I had successfully done so the first time I tried it.
Ya, thats Comcast hotstop stuff. They dont' really want you to disable that. I don't care for that kind of service.
Can you access the modems UI?
Might be someting to consider, BYOM.
Back through the AP Mode change process and it does the same thing it did the first time: Allows me to choose "AP Mode," asks me to click on "Apply" (which I do), gives me message that "this might take a few minutes," then again asks me for my user name and password that takes me right back to the "Router/AP Mode" page. I figured this meant that I was good to go and that this was an option to go back to "Router Mode" but maybe it just isn't accepting the change for some reason. Good grief.
clear the browser cache the try the UI again...something isn't getting set right...Use IE11 or FF or Opera browsers.