Ring led on RBR50

[WS-010]

Hi,

I have a RBR50 and 3 satellites. I have a hardware firewall in front of the RBR50 and the RBR50 in AP modus.

The network cable is not in the routerport, but in one of the switch ports. All is working fine, wired, mesh and wifi, but the ring led is constently solid magenta/red. How can I turn the ring led off?

Thanks!

[FURRYe38]

Connect the RBR to the host router using it's WAN port. 

[ekhalil]

Please connect the switch to Orbi’s WAN port (yellow port)) and the magenta led will disappear.

[WS-010]

Thanks, but unfortunally the satellites won't connect anymore, even after a reset. I have resetted the satellites as well, this will not bring them back up again.

Put the cable back into the switch and connected the satellites again and that's working fine.

I will get some tape and put it over the ring led 😞

[KevinLiT]

Hello WS-010,

Welcome to the NETGEAR Community!

I understand that you have a red light showing on your RBR50. To resolve this issue please connect the ethernet cable from your switch to the WAN port on your RBR50. It is the port in yellow with the text "internet". After you connect your RBR50 to the switch verify that you are able to access the internet from a device connected to your RBR50.  Then from your Orbi app navigate to Menus ( on the top-left) > ADD SATELLITE. Then connect your additional satellites to your RBR50.

Best,

Kevin

Community Team

[ekhalil]

Then can you please connect the Orbi router to the switch with 2 LAN cables; one from the WAN port and another from a LAN port, please try this 🙂

[WS-010]

Thanks, I know that I can solve the red ring led issue with the WAN port, but 2 of the 3 satellites are unable to connect. They are all on the same hardware etc.

So restored my old setup and that's working again and I leave it to this. Thanks for the help. 

[WS-010]

Hi,

I do not have 2 connection from the wall outlet, so I am unable to try this. However, thanks for the help

[ekhalil]

May be you can have a small switch to be able to connect the two cables?

[WS-010]

No, I do not, but next to that, there is no room on the shelf for additional hardware. Thanks, but I keep it this way, it is working 🙂

[ekhalil]

Yes, as long it’s working it’s not priority.
Please note that there are very small switches for two cables that you might consider.
Anyways, the magenta color is nit that bad after all. 😊😊

[WS-010]

Thanks!