Wired backhaul configured but still shows WLAN Backhaul Statistics

The TPLink switch maybe the issue as well:

https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/unmanaged-switch/tl-sg108/

I see it has green ethernet features. This doesn't work well with Orbi. 

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heathweather wrote:

My Router is an R7900, and for some reason, when I rebooted it Friday, it completely lost its configuration. Not sure why that happened, but anyway.....

 

I've been trying different things out, and it seems that in most cases, there is always a little wireless backhaul traffic while the system is booting, then the wired takes over, and the only WLAN backhaul traffic I see is the polling/beacon its doing under TxPkts. 

 

Currently the config is. CableModem -> WAN port R7900P > R7900 (port 3) -> TP-Link TL-SG108 unmanaged switch -> All Orbi

                                                                                               R7900 (port 1) -> TP-Link managed switch -> everything else on my network

 

The RBR50 (still configured as an access point) and all satellites are plugged in to the TL-SG108

 

In over three days, the RxPkts for the WLAN backhaul has not budged.  There was a little WLAN backhaul traffic at reboot, and nothing since, outside of the polling/beacon. 

 

I'm going to try moving the entire orbi back to the managed switch and see what happens.

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WOW....which one of these devices is handinling your DHCP server duties?

The R7900 handles DHCP.

Moved everything back to the 24 port managed switch, and power cycled only the RBR50. 

Silence other than the beacon on the WLAN backhaul. 

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heathweather wrote:

The R7900 handles DHCP.

 

Moved everything back to the 24 port managed switch, and power cycled only the RBR50. 

 

Silence other than the beacon on the WLAN backhaul. 

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...and how did you configure the Orbi??

Left its configuration alone - it's still in AP mode. 

I rebooted it through the GUI, and there was a small amount of WLAN backhaul traffic. 

I've just powered off all satellites and the RBR50, and now powered on the RBR50.  I'm going to observe as each satellite comes online. 

After the reboot, there was a little traffic on the WLAN backhaul, and it's been quiet since, outside of the polling/beacon.  All satellites show up as wired.

The statistics for WLAN are odd.  For example, the WLAN Backhaul Tx B/s and Rx B/s values gradually decreased over time to now, where Tx is 0 and Rx is 2, as if the metric is Bytes/Up Time and not Bytes in the polling interval. 

It's been just over a week, and everything is working well.  In the last 7+ days, there has been very little WLAN backhaul traffic.

After the last reboot, there had been 526 RxPkts, now its at 2248 RxPkts.  The TxPkts has continued to increment from its polling/beacon, I believe this must be the RBR50 sending a beacon for potential satellites (perhaps new ones?)  

I never did as ekhalil recommended and reset all the satellites. 

What I did do was move all the satellites to an 8 port switch, everything seemed good.  Then moved back to the 24 port switch, everything has been right since. 

No idea why it had gotten to the point where it was heavily using the WLAN backhaul even through it showed all the satellites as wired. 

It still shows as wired on the backhaul now, as it did before, but all the traffic is not on the WLAN backhaul, it's on the wired LAN.

Thanks to everyone that has chipped in, I appreciate your help!