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Orbi RBR50 router solid magenta in AP mode Firmware V1.9.12 conected satellite flash 0 or 2
Orbi RBR50 router solid magenta in AP mode Firmware V1.9.12 shows connected satellites between 0 and 2. So this has been up and running for 30 days now. All of a sudden it has a full Magenta LED light on the router. It's operating in AP mode with the DHCP off, as it's not being used as the router for the network. The router I use is a Fortinet 100D. The RBR50 is set to a static IP address. The satellites are assigned an IP by the router as there is no way to assign them a static IP :manfrustrated: I did find another thread that says to swap out the cable from there OEM flat one to a cat 6 cable. Tried that. I also saw a thread that says use the Internet port not the switch ports. DID that also. Then I tried to downgrade the firmware to the 1.8.0.6 but it looks like you cannot downgrade once you have upgraded. So here is a bug I have found. When logged into the RBR50 through the web browser it shows on the main page the number of satellites connected as 0 then it will blink and show 2. Then blink and show 0 again. It repeats this cycle forever. I have also found that the LED will show solid Magenta on the main base unit RBR50 when the LAN is plugged into the switch port. At the time it was plugged into the center port. Swapped out the cables like the other thread suggested, no joy. Then tried moving it over to the Internet port, no joy. Then after 5 minutes I preformed a power cycle on the unit with the cat 6 wire plugged into the Internet port. It ran through the reboot cycle then went Magenta again. Then it went Blue and finally shut off. In the other thread one person claimed it killed his through put speed. I have yet to see any difference. So why is the latest firmware V1.9.12 not available for download through the Netgear support page? It seems we must use the router to upgrade. Anyone else see this on there units?