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Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

woodsmit
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Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

Just so folks know, the 850 satellites will work with the 960 system.  I saw some previous posts that thought otherwise but I have the system up and working fine right now.  One is hard wired into 960 router and the other is using wireless backhaul.  Both are working fine. 

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FURRYe38
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites

Really...what FW version are you using on the 8 and 9 series? 

 

Please post a screen capture of the 9 series connected clients page...And what was the process to get them synced? 

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woodsmit
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites

Sure, see attached (Scrubbed out Mac addresses etc).  

 

960's running v6.0.3.85_3.1.15 and 950's running V4.6.9.11

 

Process was like normal: I hard reset the 850s with a needle, initiated the satellite pairing sequence on the orbi web interface, plugged in the 850s again to power, when prompted I hit the sync button on the 850 and then it relatively quickly indicated it found the satellite and paired.

 

Once paired, I moved one to another room wireless backhaul and the other I attached to ethernet for backhaul, which didn't require any tweaks to config.  Just spun right up.

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FURRYe38
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

Wow, confirmed:

RBS850Synced2RBR960.png

Can access the RBS web page.

Interesting it seems connected at WPA3:

RBS850Synced2RBR960_2.png

Wondering if this would be backwards compatible with non WPA3 devices. Mixed WPA2 and WPA3 is set on the RBRE960. 

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FURRYe38
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

7 series RBS working now too:

RBS750Synced2RBR960.png

Thought the status reported Wired for unknown reason when the RBS was synced wirelessly.

 

RBS750Synced2RBR960_2.png

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FURRYe38
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

Can you post a screen capture of the statistic page from the RBR while you have the RBS850 connected to the system? 


@woodsmit wrote:

Just so folks know, the 850 satellites will work with the 960 system.  I saw some previous posts that thought otherwise but I have the system up and working fine right now.  One is hard wired into 960 router and the other is using wireless backhaul.  Both are working fine. 


 

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woodsmit
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

Which specific page, not sure which one is the statistics page

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FURRYe38
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

The one under the Advanced Tab page. There is a button there call Show Statistics.

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FURRYe38
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Re: Orbi 960 system and 850 satellites - Confirmed working

Also do you have Guest Network enabled on the RBR and if not, do you see any Guest Network SSIDs coming from the 8 series RBS? 

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