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Reviving dead Netgear Orbi RBS850 satellites into a WiFi 6 OpenWrt mesh + AdGuard Home — no router, no serial (Matteo Agosti + Claude Code/Opus 4.8)

Reviving Dead Orbi Satellites: a WiFi 6 mesh + AdGuard Home from e-waste — no router, no soldering

Two orphaned Netgear Orbi RBS850 satellites. The RBR850 router that paired them was dead. Netgear's answer is "buy a new router." Ours was different: turn them into a full OpenWrt WiFi 6 mesh with network-wide ad-blocking — without opening the case or touching a serial console.

This is the full story, the dead ends, the breakthroughs, and every command

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