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A whole home wifi system on one 2.4ghz channel???
I've just set-up my Orbi RBK23 system. Having done an RF survey of the house and garden I determined the best 2.4Ghz channels for each device. Based on the survey I went to assign cetrain devices ...
- For anyone finding this thread with the same issue I think I've resolved it for the 2.4Ghz band. I haven't yet tried for 5Ghz.
Most of the replies have been less than helpful so I hope this will work for people finding this thread.
Note: I'm using the system in access point mode so can't confirm this works when using the Orbi as a router.
1) Setup Orbi system. All devices will be on the same WiFi channel, in my case ch1.
2) Change the router 2.4Ghz channel to ch6. The satellites will remain on the original channel.
3) Hard reset one of the satellites and set it up as if it were a new addition to the network. It should connect and use ch6, which the router is using.
4) Change the wifi channel number of the router to ch11. You will then have each device on a separate channel.
It's unbelievably weird that Netgear doesn't provide settings to make this process simple but I guess Orbi is targeted at people with limited radio frequency and WiFi knowledge.
Next will come experiments with the 5Ghz settings.
Also, using a wifi analyser it looks like my 2.4Ghz signals are covering 6 channels. Is this something to do with the MIMO settings? I feel like I'm missing something and not understanding this Orbi system! :)
Welcome to the world of wireless channels!
The router can only use 1 channel at a time. not multiple. And they overlap. Which is why 1-6-11 is recommended. to prevent the overlap.
https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/why-channels-1-6-11.html
Nice thing about orbi is it does band steering. So if a device is needing more bandwidth, the orbi can switch them to 5ghz if they support it. 5ghz is significantly faster than 2.4ghz.