Who Me Too'd this topic

I have the new Orbi RBR850 (AX-6000) with two satellites. I upgraded from the RBR50 as I had no issues with them. The new router was not cheap and it came at the cost of almost $1200.00 after few weeks for delay. Then once installed in AP mode the satellites would not sync with the router wirelessly unless it was few feet away. Only way you could sync the satellites was to run a direct ethernet cable between the router and the satellites. At additional cost of my own sweat and others I ran direct runs from satellites to the router so they could sync. This was not easy to run cables between the floors. Anyways once that was done I was sure to have good wi-fi throughout the house but I am comoletely disappointed. The satellites keep dropping connection to the router and the only way that I knew they did not work is when my wife or daughter complained about the speed. So I built a monitoring PC to monitor the satellites. Anyways after all this I was still having trouble so I started troubleshooting the network . packet sniffing and firewall logs show that the saytellites keep flipping the mac address every few minutes. One of the mac address is netgear and the other is make belief (fake). The reason I say this is becasuse someone may say it is some other device on the network. (I also set a tap on the network so there is no other device on that segment. ). Anyways I called Netgear support and after spending numerour hours and doing whatever they asked me to do they decided that the sarellites are faulty. I highly doubt that the satellites are faulty but something wrong in design. I insisted that they should escalate the call to the developers as this was not a tech issue but a design issue but I was not able to. Another thing that i noticed that the units keep sending data to netgear though these are in AP mode and no services from Netgear are needed for operation.

As for the support the techs that were on the call though not knowelagable were courteous. For the equipment exchage they opned two RMA's. At this time I am sure I am wasting $34, for RMA shipping time and inconvinience. Unfortunaly the home CFO will not let me spend money on another wi-fi solution so I am stuck with this peice of crap. If someone is reading through this please do not buy the AX-6000 platform. Additionally I am not sure why Netgear equipment is reaching out to netgear on the net. I have not had a chance to check the packet contents if it is NTP or any other port.

I have attached a log file from the router which clearly shows the mac address flipping. I have also reset the full system and reconfigured for the log as others may say that I need to reset the system and try so I have done it already and included in the log. I have underlined and changed color for the mac addresses below.

Thanks you 

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