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The satellite in the garden room shows as a wired connection type and the devices hardwired into it work fine. I can connect to it from a computer on the wireless network in my house. The issue is the RBS50 in the garden room has no WiFi available and if I load up the satellite's web page the status is "The Orbi satellite can't connect to the Orbu router" - which is not true as I can access it from a computer in my house and the devices plugged into the satellite have an innternet connection. On the status page of the satellite it has 2.4GHz (Disabled) and 5GHz (Disabled).
I didn't think it was possible to disable the WiFi? It also has "Wireless AP: Off".
What am I doing wrong? does it need to be in WiFi range of the house satellites to offer the mesh on the satellite? surely having the wired backhaul is enough?!
Yeah I tried factory resetting it. I think I've just found the culprit - I had a GS308EP switch plugged into the satellite with the wired backhaul (as I need some PoE ports for IP cameras) and that seems to cause it to do weird things. If I remove the switch I get the wired backhaul + wifi works as expected.
I'm going to try a PoE injector instead of a switch, hopefully that will cause less of an issue but it seems like a strange problem, they're both Netgear products...
Yeah I tried factory resetting it. I think I've just found the culprit - I had a GS308EP switch plugged into the satellite with the wired backhaul (as I need some PoE ports for IP cameras) and that seems to cause it to do weird things. If I remove the switch I get the wired backhaul + wifi works as expected.
I'm going to try a PoE injector instead of a switch, hopefully that will cause less of an issue but it seems like a strange problem, they're both Netgear products...
