A whole home wifi system on one 2.4ghz channel???

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.