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Orbi Losing CenturyLink PRISM TV signal
Hello All, I am currently using my Orbi System to get rid of the provided router CenturyLink. I have Gigabit Internet and TV. The Internet portion works great! I am running into a problem with the TV portion though. With 'Disable IGMP Proxy' unchecked and having a VLAN tag of 201, I get a picture. After about 30 minutes, the picture looses signal till I change the channel. Can anyone tell me waht's going on?Transparent Bridging with Centurylink pk5001z
In order to get my RBR50 to work with my DSL modem in tranparent bridging mode, I had to turn off the satelite, which is meh, slightly annoying. The rest of the story. I live in a area that has had extended periods (hours to days to weeks) of no power, while not longer than a few hours lately, it can happen again. I picked the Orbi, because it is not cloud based, and your internal network comes back with the power. This means your printers and other WiFi connected deviced will work. I am using the latest V2.1.2.18 software. My first attempt at setup failed completely, I had tried to change things to look like my old network, and it just didn't work. The biggest mistake I had made was changing the SSID prior to setup of the RBS50. I reset everything to factory and changed as little as possible except the SSID (after everything was up and happy), which I kept short and simple. Only change WAN or Internet settings to get connected to your provider until your entire network is up and the versions are synced. I have in the last 2 months had to reset the Satellite (RBS50) once. As I have seen posted, if your Router restarts, you need to restart the satellite. Things are as reliable as my lousy DSL will allow. I am using the firmware that everyone is screaming about, and it seems to be fine. After a blackout yesterday lasting longer than my UPS, the Centurylink DSL modem came up in an unhappy state. It said it was in Transparent Bridging, but the internet status light was flashing red and green ( should be off). If the DSL modem is power cycled, it will do this almost every time. To get things to work, I had to get DSL working with my static IP settings first, turn off the RBS50 and RBR50, flip the modem settings back to Transparent Bridging, turn off the wireless on the pk5001z and using the pk5001z admin utlity, reboot the modem (not power it), turn on the RBR50, tho I think I also just rebooted it from the Orbi admin one of the successful attempts. Then you can turn on the RBS50. I can't tell if this is an issue with the DSL Modem (probably), or the RBR50 doesn't push thru the static IP settings, but I don't understand why the Satellite would come into play, but it seems to. ThanksFinally - fast WiFi on all 3 floors of the house
I see most people on here with complaints, but thought I would add my $.02 on the positive so far. My setup is a 3 story house with symmetric gigabit fiber. I have 7 kids and associated devices, both wireless and wired. We have added some home automation and have a big variety of devices. Some of the key items: Sonos - 1 wired Playbar and 3 wireless players Nest Thermostat and 3 Nest Protects Ring Doorbell Alarm.com system Ooma T-Mobile with Android and iPhones configured for WiFi calling several Xboxes and several gaming PCs TiVo SiloconDust tuner Nvidia Shield Amazon Fire TVs Vizio Cast capable TV The house is about 3600 Sq. Ft. and I have the Orbi router mounted in the pantry - probably the most central location in the house, then a satellite in the basement. New construction - lots of Cat6 wiring, but a lot of devices are wireless, even if you do have wiring you might not be able to use it. We had Google Wifi for about 8 months and it worked well, but because of the fiber setup it created double NAT as a router and won't do mesh as just an AP. The double NAT finally caused too many problems and ipV6 wouldn't work right, either. Thus began the search for replacement gear. I compared Orbi to Linksys Velop, eero, and Google Wifi. After lots of testing, none of these systems could do both mesh and handle the gigabit fiber - for multiple reasons. One key thing is that I have CenturyLink and they require two things to replace their 'modem' - 1. PPPoE, not available on eero, for example. 2. VLAN tagging - becoming available on some units but not on most, like Google Wifi. The other thing is the PPPoE offload acceleration is needed to get wireline speed - something that most units don't do, so even if you have PPPoE, it may be very slow, which wouldn't matter on a 40Mbit connection, but on gigabit fiber, you know. So, long story short, the Orbi is hands down the fastest wireless AP I've tested - including a Unifi UAP-AC-Pro. I have great WiFi edge to edge in the whole house now with the RBK50 and RBS50. Setup was a challenge - the satellite would not show up in the dashboard - I had to find its IP address, login to it directly, then update its firmware manually. Once I did that, it showed up and then the whole system auto updated. It's been 3 days now and all seems stable. The final thing I had to do was replace the 'modem', though. I bought a Cisco rv340 - has corporate speed with PPPoE acceleration and VLAN tagging integrated. After I put the GWifi setup on Ebay and finalize returns, I'm in for about $350 to upgrade to blazing fast wireless and wireline speed routing. YMMV, but I am very please with Orbi thus far. As an AP with a smart extender, its ridiculously fast. Two thumbs up! Oh, and running the latest firmware - 1.12.0.18. I have powered both units off, then the satellite, then the router, a few ranom resets, etc. just to make sure it all comes back and so far, so good. Also, a plug for Netgear putting their equipment for sale with the Navy Exchange - as a vet, that price was excellent - thank you!