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Allow Custom DHCP Settings
My Orbi 770 mesh was not cheap. In fact, it was expensive. I purchased it right after it was released. I use pi-hole to block ads AND manage local DNS. The problem is that the Orbi's DNS proxy will not forward the unqualified or ".local" qualified names internally to my pi-hole server. In addition, I have had some intermittently flaky behavior on resolving some DNS names, specifically Docker Hub. I have tried multiple workarounds, nothing works. Please don't tell me to manually manage my DNS configurations on all of my clients. That's unreasonable. Please don't tell me to offload my DHCP to my pi-hole node. I don't want to mess with needing to stand up a DHCP node for my guest network. This should be simple enough. Why, oh why, can there not be an advanced config option to manually adjust the client parameters provided by the Orbi DHCP server? Have a checkbox that allows you to go in and directly change the primary and secondary DNS servers. It seems straight-forward to me; but I admit I don't have to manage the firmware code base. If it is too much, please tell me with a reasonable explanation as to why that is the case. Please consider my request. I know there are others Orbi users out there in the same boat.
Hide SSID password on router home page
Netgear, please DO NOT DISPLAY the WiFi passwords in the clear for the primary and guest networks on the default Basic -> Home page of the http://orbilogin.com web interface. The passwords should not be displayed on this page at all, instead it would be more helpful to display the encryption being used on both the Primary and Guest WiFi networks for this status page. Please correct this security issue! The password can still be shown when uncovered on the WiFi Settings pages if needed, else it should only show *********** to hide the SSID password. There is absolutely NO REASON to display PASSWORDS IN CLEAR TEXT on the home page!Orbi RBS750 won't connect to Router Fix
I just purchased a new Orbi RBS750 to add to my AX4200 System. I ran into the problem that seems to be common. It would not connect to my router. After a few frustrating days of searching for a solution (none of which worked for me). Almost every fix lead to updating the firmware. Which I could not do since the RBS750 would never connect to the router. After much trial and error I was able to resolve this myself. I am posting what I did here to hopefully help others.It may not work for everyone, but it worked for me. Issue: RBS750 has a Pulsing White Light / Won’t Sync with Router / If hard wired to the router it was showing up in the Connected Devices list and not identified as a Satellite on the web interface tool. No way to update firmware. On a PC or Mac go to the downloads page on Netgear / Orbi site Download the latest firmware for the RBS750 Extract the zip file to your desktop Reset the RBS750 to factory settings Connect it to Orbi CBR752 Modem / Router via CAT 5 or 6 cable Power up the RBS750 On a PC connected to the Orbi network go to Orbilogin Web Interface Locate the RBS750, Mine was identified as a Connected Devices and not as a Satellite Make a note of its IP address On your PC open a new tab on your browser Go the theRBS750’s IP address – It may take a while to load up. Be patient. The web interface for the RBS750 Satellite should open Once it loads go to Update Firmware Select the upgrade file you extracted in step 3 Upload the file to the RBS750 Allow the update to complete and for the RBS750 to reboot After a few minutes it should sync with your Orbi Router and connect to the Orbi Network Remove the network cableAllow Subnet Mask of 255.255.0.0 and Flexible DHCP Start (Orbi AC3000/RBR50)
My Orbi AC3000/RBR50 has the first three bytes of the subnet mask greyed out and preset to 255. That means my subnet mask can be only 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.255.252. My suggestion is to allow at least two bytes of network space. For example , allow the subnet mask to be 255.255.0.0, or 255.255.128.0. At the same time, allow the DHCP range to start anywhere within that subnet. So, for example if my network is 10.20.0.0 / 255.255.0.0, allow me to choose where DHCP starts in that range. So for instance, allow it to start at 10.20.30.0 and run through 10.20.30.254. Reason I'm asking for this is that I'm a little picky about assigning my devices on my network to human-readable IP addresses. It helps me with troubleshooting. By allowing a full 16-bit network space (with a 10.x.x.x private network), I have many more of the tens and hundreds in the third byte to assign my devices to. Thanks!Urgent: intertet usage by device!
We urgently need internet usage monitoring!. Since I switched to my orbi ac3000 my internet usage spiked 40%. Same usage same devices over the last 3 years only difference the router. Need to switch back to my old timecapule to avoid paying $10 to comcast for each addition 50G. Come on guys!realtime bandwidth monitoring by device
It would be great if you could see realtime bandwidth per device for the netgear r7000, similar to Google Wifi and Eero. It would be a really useful info and diagnostic tool to see what devices are currently taking up bandwidth. It would be great if this was added to the router web administration page as well theNetgear Genie and/or Netgear Up apps. I've attached a screenshot of how this feature looks on Google Wifi.Bandwidth monitoring by device
I've been searching the forums and the Internet in general, today, as I have gotten my first notice from Comcast that, lo, I am over my 1 Terabyte limit, this month. It has been inching toward that mark for a bit, and last month was around 944 Gig. What can I say: We are a connected, gaming, streaming family and our Comcast link is a vital utility. I have seen suggestions on this forum to "just disconnect everything and reconnect until you find the hog." With 30ish devices on the network, 4 kids, 2 renters, and countless visitors, this is simply not a possibility. What I could do is set up a different router (preferably one with this feature) and move the connections over to it one-by-one until I find the offender. If I have to go that route, I highly doubt the Orbi would get reconnected. Which is a shame because it is a pretty decent solution for everything else. I would like for Netgear to seriously consider giving customers an option for this data. There are many ways to do it, but ANY of them would be acceptable to me. I'm a long-time networking pro, so even if these are scary for some people, at least it would be an option. Do the metering in the device with display of the statistics in the interface and in the app. This is obviously going to make the most customers happy because it would give us a report per-device of the usage. This isn't rocket science: Even if the device has a database limitation of 100 devices to monitor, or even 50, it would be useful. COMCAST does it on their modem devices for xFi. It can't be that hard. Do the metering externally by providing SNMP statistics on a per-device basis for smaller timeframes. This would mean that the Orbi doesn't have to store "dead" devices forever and would be up to whatever stat-gathering tool was used. Do the metering externally by providing some app that collects the data to a desktop. Maybe Java so you can hit Windows, Linux, and Mac all at once with it. Provide traffic mirroring to a selected wired port. This would at least give me the ability to plug in Wireshark or other tools to see what is going on. It would be super useful for troubleshooting intermittent issues and not just bandwidth monitoring. Provide netflow/sflow output to a collector on the home network. This would also have broader uses than just bandwidth monitoring, but it is potentially the hardest to use solution in this list. If it is easy to implement in the Orbi (i.e., the chips already support it), then I'll take it happily. Other things I haven't mentioned. Look, I'm desperate, here. I will find a way to use anything that helps. I get 2 months free "warnings" from Comcast, but the cost of not knowing this outweighs replacing the Orbi. Once I start getting charged $10/50 Gig, I'm going to need to know right then and there. And if I don't have a reasonable answer by that time, another Orbi will be going out to eBay.Please provide more 5GHZ wifi channel options - restricting to channels 36-48 is too limiting
I live in London in the UK and nearly every house nearby has wifi and growth of 5GHZ routers is growing rapidly - the WiFI explorer application on my Mac is picking up at least 13 wifi signals on channels 36-48 and around half of those have a signal strength of over 50% in my house. But there are hardly any routers using the 52-64 channels. Now I understand Orbi uses some of the 5GHZ channels for the backhaul, but surley there is enough space above channel 48 to support the backhaul and allow a 5GHZ wifi signal for devices so you can get a more reliable and stable connection on 5GHZ - which is the whole point of having a fast 'mesh' router as all my main devices support 5GHZ and I have a 200Mpbs broadband connection. But the interference in the 5GHZ channels means my devices often default back to 2.4GHZ channels which kills the speed I can get down to around 50-70Mpbs vs the full 200Mpbs possible on the 5GHZ channel. I used to have a Apple Airport Extreme and to be honest it could deliver a better 5GHZ signal throughout my whole house because it could use channels above 48 - and that was having the Airport on the ground floor and I live in a three-story house made of brick walls and the signal would reach the loft just fine! Please Orbi team try and fix this as it is a major design flaw for most people in busy urban areas with lots of routers in the 5GHZ band - I don't really mind if it's a manual option or the Orbi is more intelligent and can automatically shuffle around use of the 5GHZ channels for the back-haul and wifi, but restricting use of wifi to just 4 channels makes the system no better than an Airport Extreme that is over 5 years old for my use case - hardly cutting edge performance as Negear claim and it is definately not living up to the marketing strap line of "Better Wifi. Everywhere"!