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Orbi firmware update v2.1.4.16 availability
We’ve been monitoring issues that some customers have experienced in OrbiOS 2.1.4. In response, we’re releasing firmware that provides a permanent fix for the homekit issue along with various other f...
I have an AT&T Gateway with the orbi running in AP mode. I have an R6400 that was replaced by the Orbi. Since the Orbi is unable to operate in Router mode (still dont understand how that happens), is it overkill to connect the R6400 to the AT&T Gtaeway with all of the wireless radios cut off on the gateway and then connect Orbi to the R6400? (I'm assuming that's the proper way to set that up)?
My comments must be preceded by the disclosure that I am in Australia and don’t know what a AT&T Gateway is, nor have I had any experience with the Netgear R6400. Just Netgear Orbi.
So if you have connected the Orbis to the gateway in AP mode, and provided you have access to the internet, then the gateway is handling the routing, NAT, DHCP, firewall and security, isn’t it? If so then you don’t need to use the R6400. Does everything work in this setup? You don’t say.
Perhaps the reason you can’t get the Orbis to work in router mode is because it’s reacting to the AT&T Gateway also in router mode? If that’s the case then one of the two devices has to be in bridge mode to give the other the duties of the necessary router functions