Wired backhaul on 2.1.2.18 magenta LED but correct device assignments

[budy]

Up to now, I always used the ethernet wired backhaul with the router port on my router, which runs in AP mode. This worked very well, but hat the issue, that wireless devices on the satellite were shown as connected wired to the router. Yesterday, I took a look at the wired backhaul KB article and remembered, that when I had connected the router via the first "LAN" port to my network, the LED would stay a solid magenta, which was what make me switch the ports on my router in the first place, since the LED went out and everything else worked as well.

However, since then, the assignment of wireless devices, that are connected to the satellite, have always been shown as being connected wired to the router, instead of wirelessly to the satellite. After reading the KB article about how to wired the router correctly, I can state that now the satellite's wireless clients are noted correctly as being wirelessly connected to the satellite, but…

…now the LED of the router as turned a solid magenta again for 10 hrs straight.

[DarrenM]

Have you tried to factory reset that satellite and resync it?

DarrenM

[budy]

Yes, I had tried that already, because otherwise the ethernet backhaul wouldn't even come "online" in the UI, but that didn't change anything.

[cheshbr]

I have had success connecting my Orbi RBK50 system to my satellite using wired ethernet on FW 2.1.2.18.  I have included a photo of my setup, which I hope you can see.  

I will describe it anyway.  There's a red cable plugged into the yellow Internet port, and beside that is a blue cable with a red collar that connects via a patch-panel to a D-Link 5 port switch in my family room where the Orbi satellite sits.  Now, when I visit the Orbi router's configuration web page, Connected Satellites shows Connection Type Wired

and the connected device show 5G against the satellite

[FURRYe38]

Wired back haul was flakey in v2.1.x.x, works well in v2.1.3.4. A factory reset is needed here then set up from scratch. 

Be advised there is newer v2.1.4.10 FW now for 50 series systems:

https://kb.netgear.com/000055985/RBR50-RBS50-Firmware-Version-2-1-4-10

Up to you if you wanna try it.