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Pattywack
Apr 23, 2020Aspirant
Connection between Router and satelite has changed from 5g to 2,4g all of a sudden.
Hi guys I'm looking for some help with my setup. I live in a 100m2 two story house. My internet backhaul is in the livingroom on the 1st floor while my satelite is located in the hallway on the s...
CrimpOn
Apr 23, 2020Guru - Experienced User
If the satellite ring light turned Blue for 2 minutes when it sync'd to the router, and the Attached Devices web page showed the connection was "Good", then something must have happened to cause the router to abandon the 5G WiFi backhaul channel. Depending on your location, there could be interactions with military and weather radar systems. I found this post:
Orbi’s Radar Detection on backhaul DFS
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/5Ghz-channels/td-p/1538610
As mentioned, Orbi uses DFS channels for backhaul, when Radar signals are detected, Orbi will switch to other channels for backhaul.
To see the events when Orbi detects radar signals you can check this in Orbi log as follows:
- Enable Telnet in the routers debug.htm page
- Telnet to Orbi and enter the following command:
- root@RBR50:~# cat /var/radardetect.log
- You will get printout similar to this:
Radar Detected at [Wed Jan 23 23:19:55 CET 2019 ] on channels [116,120,124,128]
Radar Detected at [Wed Jan 23 23:26:20 CET 2019 ] on channels [100,104,108,112]