A reboot of the sat sorted it. Oddly it said 2ghz was disabled??? I did another reboot and it started working.
My situation is I am trying to get optimal placement of the two devices, the sat is showing blue as good connection but the AP router is showing backhaul of "poor".
<rant> Not trying to be a troll here! You guys on here are great, I have read a lot of posts and learnt alot about the Orbi. My story: I have had the Orbi for about 2 years (RBK40/RBS40) and frankly fed up with it! I work from home a lot and the constant "orbi knows best" switching from sat to AP router keeps disconnecting my VPN connection to work, which then requires me to disable wifi and re-enable so the MS DirectAccess works (sensitive to mac address jumps to wifi for security reasons). Also, my Ring video doorbell latency is just plain stupid, press the doorbell takes 5 minutes for the chime to respond, I fixed this by putting a repeater on a different SSID which solved the issue, I apprecaite that may be a hardware failing on Ring's part. However,if orbi could allow you to assign to a specific device to a specific node, then these problem would go away. Honestly I am at wits end with this system, having to use my old repeaters to get things working is not a solution. Having to telnet on to configure different SSID's which get wiped when the next firmware comes along is a serious pain. I may go back to ASUS and use thier AIMesh topology as I have my old routers that are supported.
I am sure this setup is fine for people that use the internet to look at cat videos and such, but as a costly all encompasing mesh coverage network (which is what sold me on the idea) its falling short of the mark.
I will probably get a lot of critisism for saying the above, but as a mesh network goes, this is pretty basic and expected better from netgear. </rant>
Sorry if the above puts anyones nose out of joint. I just dont see Orbi as a solid solution anymore.
