Well I've got the latest wrt firmware as of 1/17/24 for both the RBR50 and the 2 RBS50 satellites. Flashed sats first and got good response. Flashed router and got good response. Rebooted router and wrt came right up and the router is working great. Thing is neither of the 2 satellites are meshing to the router. I've tried hitting the Sync button to no avail. So as of now everything is connected to the router and nothing will connect via a satellite.
I'm a newb with openwrt so go easy if this is simple. So far all I've been able to do is get all devices on the network wirelessly and give them all host names (which took a second to figure out why they use the term "host" name for a wireless device on the network). I've also hidden the router itself from showing it's SSID. Also can't figure out why the router radios are broadcasting a separate ID as it is but, I'm more concerned about brining up the satellites so they can mesh and I can get those farther devices on the network via the satellites and get their speeds up a bit.
yah kinda noticed that. Is there a way to configure each satellite on it's own as you do with the router? Since they're not getting an IP address from the router I don't know how to connect to it. Just replacing the RBS for the RBR doesn't give me a home page as the router does so I have to guess the satellites don't have home pages to get into them with. If the router doesn't connect to the satellites and the satellites don't get an IP address then how do you configure them?
Ok so just to be thorough, I reconnected an RBS in place of the working router and it appears I can get into the RBS via 192.168.1.1. Now from what I can tell it's a matter of defining what radio0 is? My first thought is the router is set to 802.11s and the sats set to access point?
Well found a video that had some more setup info, still not working. Set up router as 802.11s, mesh ID is my-mesh, wireless security is WPA3-SAE (same key as on sat). Set up sat as Access Point with same creds. Of note is I have fequency for this backhaul to AC, channel 100, 80Mhz width. Gonna change to N and see if that makes a diff
If it is the one I think it is, then it is very outdated and as you have found, does not work.
You could try reading the documentation to get a feel for how a mesh network is configured:
What you are trying to do is very simple but you must put out of your head all the vendor specific marketing stuff that does not apply. In OpenWrt, a mesh network consists of an array of nodes, all of which are peers of each other - there are no "satellites". There are nodes that have differing functionality, but vendor specific terms will just confuse you no end.....
When you flash a device with OpenWrt, it will by default be an ip router with its wireless disabled. From there you have to configure to your requirements. Any magic buttons the vendor built in will most likely do nothing at all unless you program them...
Read the documentation then come back here. Depending on your current technical abilities, you will either be able to easily make it work or be stuck. Most likely somewhere in between. Just come back and ask questions once you have read the docs, people will be more than willing to help you to figure it out.