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gawalla's avatar
gawalla
Aspirant
Jun 01, 2020

Absurdly slow speeds from outbuilding Satellite

Hello

I am hoping to get some help on bad speeds and dropped coverages.  I've recently moved into a house with an outbuilding pool house about 150' away.  Internet is FiOS and of course, it comes into the worst spot possible - the garage at the far end of the house.  Everything is running the most updated firmware.

 

I have slowly and steadily been experimenting with placement of satellites (my router is connected to my FiOS modem/router in the garage), and now have one upstairs, one on the main level (same level as garage, about 50' away) and an outdoor orbi outside the walk-out basement on the complete other side of the house from the garage.

 

I also have a satellite in the pool house, which is connected via ethernet cable directly from the router.

 

Problem is, I have very inconsistent speeds and lots of dropped connections.  I think I've gotten it more reliable in the past couple of days by reading posts about settings changes in the Advanced Setup menu, but still can't get the pool house satellite to be consistently above 2-3 Mbps (lots of times, it's <1.0 - not kidding) and the interior (main house) satellites are typically running about 50-60 Mbps,  despite a 200 service from FiOS.

 

What can I do to improve this?  I know I'm stretching past the # of satellites and they are probably a bit farther apart than they should be, but is there anything I can do to improve this?  I want to be able to stream my Sonos and stream my RokuTV, neither of which is possible in the current situation.

 

Thanks in advance!!

14 Replies

  • CrimpOn's avatar
    CrimpOn
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jun 02, 2020

    An Orbi satellite connected directly to the router with ethernet cable should provide the same performance level as the Orbi router.

    When you look at the Orbi web interface "Attached Devices", what does it show for the pool house satellite?

    (how is it connected?)

    • gawalla's avatar
      gawalla
      Aspirant
      Jun 02, 2020
      That’s the weird thing - it shows up with a solid line/wired and is rated as “good” On the web interface and with a green indicator in the app.

      From appearances it should be functioning.

      Overall there seems to be an incredible diminution of speeds on the Orbi WiFi - even the router shows no more than 50-60, sometimes a spike to 100, speeds while plugged directly into the FiOS router. And the pool house is another order of magnitude below everything else.