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Backhaul at 2.4 = low bandwidth
Hello, I have an Orbi RBk50 and 1 satellite since beginning of december. Everything was working flawless (300Mbps everywhere), but today, I had a huge bandwidth drop off. Every devices conne...
Dooky wrote:I have an Orbi RBk50 and 1 satellite since beginning of december.
Everything was working flawless (300Mbps everywhere), but today, I had a huge bandwidth drop off.
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Since then I've been watching with some anxiety if the router won't switch to 2.4Ghz.
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What can I do to avoid this ? I don't really care if it switch to 5Ghz to 2.4 Ghz as long as I don't have a huge bandwith loss...
Good work to find the telnet command to display the backhaul status. Yes, you care very much if the backhaul switches to 2.4G because the maximum throughput on 2.4G is 400mb, and it is shared with the "user side" 2.4G devices since there is only one 2.4G radio.
I do not see "what can change" when 5G backhaul has been working for some time. The walls were there when the connection was "Good". Walls have no moved. My fear is that something has disrupted the backhaul signal. (Weather/military radars can do that.) Do you have any tools that will show what frequency the 5G backhaul is on? (It will appear as a WiFi system with hidden SSID.) If the switch happens again, I would want to see if that hidden WiFi remains alive or has disappeared.
It is so seldom that someone comes on the forum with time left on Netgear's 90 days of "complimentary support". If this happens even one more time, I would be on the phone asking for a warranty replacement.
Dooky wrote:With what kind of tools can I use to see if the backhaul stays or disappears? Android apps or ios ?
On Android, my personal favorite is WiFi Analyzer by Kevin Yuan. I also have one by Abdelrahman M. Sid. (there are dozens more) For Windows WiFiInfoView from Nirsoft. I believe iOS does not allow developers access to the WiFi stack to create apps like these.
Ok I installed a wifi analyser and I did some test :
When everything were Ok in 2Ghz this morning :
Freebox-435267 is my box
Then 5 Ghz
And this afternoon it started again
And now, with the Wifi analyser I have this :
I have 2 times my Box (Freebox-435267)
In 2 Ghz :
And in 5 Ghz, same thing :
So I don't really understand whats going on...