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gregpace67
Oct 22, 2022Aspirant
problems using Netgear19 router on starlink network
Good morning, people. I have a problem that I cannot work out... I live in rural NSW, Australia, and have set up a Starlink System on our farm. due to the trees, we have found it necessary to insta...
- Jan 02, 2018
As with the previous several firmwares, I'm still getting excellent performance and stability on V2.1.1.16, but I acknowledge there are a heckuva lot of moving parts both with Orbi itself and environment-dependent factors that can make or break that performance... For what it's worth, here are my thoughts on the Orbi setup options specifically...
I have a basic 1-router-1-satellite Orbi setup. The Sat is ~20-25 feet from router with a "Good" wireless backhaul connection (ethernet wired connection not a option in my house). The router is in my basement and sat is on main floor - a couple of walls in between too.
Daisy Chain
I recommend enabling this feature only if you have multiple sats that link like this: R-S-S. If you have just one sat or your multiple sats are hub-&-spoke (S-R-S), then leave Daisy Chain disabled.
Implicit Beamforming
It's my understanding that implicit beamforming is only potentially helpful for older non-ac wireless devices (i.e. b/g/n 2.4-only devices). I only have a few of those in my house, and they connect fine with beamforming disabled, so that's where I leave it. I've experimented with having it "on" too, and didn't have any issues, but I also didn't notice any improvements. So, in an effort to keep things as simple as possible, I leave that option disabled.
It's also my understanding that explicit beamforming (specifically for wireless ac devices) is inherently built into Orbi - there's no seperate selection option for that explicit beamforming capability.
MU-MIMO
I'd bet almost anything that you don't have multiple mu-mimo devices that could potentially take advantage of this feature (such devices are still quite rare). I don't have any such devices at all, so I leave this feature disabled. To paraphrase one of the wise old-heads on smallnetbuilder.com, MU-MIMO is the 3-D TV of wifi these last couple years -- a lot of glitzy hype, but no real substance ;)
Fast Roaming
I have this feature disabled, since it caused my phone to bounce back-&-forth between my router and sat wayyy too much. I am very dependent on wifi-calling, so that's how I noticed it. My wifi-calling is super stable with this feature disabled, but it's certainly worth playing around with in your own setup - maybe it'll work great in your particular environment.
Wireless channels (2.4 and 5)
I've always left mine at the default since those work fine for me, but I'm in an uncongested area. If you are in a more congested area, it's definitely worth analyzing your overall local wireless environment to determine the best channel selections for you, but that's good advice for setting up any router - Orbi or otherwise.
Good luck!
mattmore1111111
Apr 01, 2022Star
This is true. I used to do a lot of field service on Fortinet firewall/routers. After working on those home gear is mostly a walk in the park, except when the config interface won't come up.
I really wish i could console in to this netgear to work on it. CLI is generally better for these things or to figure out what isn't running or why.
mattmore1111111
Apr 08, 2022Star
So, here is the solution:
Use paper clip to hold down the reset button for 10 seconds.
Router Restarts
Use wired device to connect to router at 192.168.1.1
Wait
Go through the new setup process as all of your settings gone.
Rebuild your router like you took it out of the box.
Hope it keeps working (not a lot of faith this problem won't happen again)
I already had the menu go into infinite wait screen and trying to reconnect the IP wasn't accessible. Power cycled and was able to get back in.
All I changed was a device name on the wired network (changed Playstation to Playstation 5 in the description, not device name, it did take effect though)
So.... there we go.
Thanks for all the help Netgear (sarcasm)
skrangel wrote:
Anyone having any idea on what might resolve the situation?
See this (rather long) thread:
Netgear fixed the repo issue described in the thread, so you don't actually need to upgrade to 6.10.9. Still, I would recommend doing that.
Sandshark provided download links in post 37 that you likely will find helpful.
Thanks StephenB!
The resolution is perhaps slightly advanced to me, but I will go for it if I need to. Are there any risks with doing this, such as bricking the NAS or risking the data on the discs?
There has been some development since yesterday. After one more power off and reboot of the NAS it worked fine to install another application, the Plex Media Server. But it is the iDrive application I want to install and use.
I learnt from iDrive support that iDrive needs PHP5+ and browser functionality from the NAS.
With this new information, is the suggested solution still my best option?
Btw, is this normal for ReadyNAS with this OS or did something happen to my NAS?
skrangel
skrangel wrote:
Btw, is this normal for ReadyNAS with this OS or did something happen to my NAS?
This affects all ReadyNAS that run OS-6. OS-6 uses Debian 8 Linux (Jessie). That is quite old (the current stable release is Debian 12), and the Debian community archived it a few months ago. So they moved the various repositories (including the various Debian libraries) to the archive. One of the files (sources.list) has the new locations. The other changes (apt.conf) allows libraries to be downloaded insecurely (also required due to the Debian archival).
skrangel wrote:
There has been some development since yesterday. After one more power off and reboot of the NAS it worked fine to install another application, the Plex Media Server. But it is the iDrive application I want to install and use.
Some applications might not need new libraries to be installed, but others will. So I do recommend applying the patches. Hopefully Netgear will include them in a future OS-6 update.