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Devices not connecting to 5g even being 1ft away from router
Hello everyone, my main problem is stated on the subject: my devices are not connecting to 5g even being 1ft away from router/satellite, on the same room, no blocking objects. When I try to change ...
Hi rdiniz1111,
I understand that you are having issues with the Wi-Fi bands on your RBR20. Your RBR20 seems to be switching Wi-Fi bands to the slower 2Ghz band. Please make sure that the transmit power control strength for the 5Ghz band is at the optimal 100%.
Please follow the steps below to adjust transmit power control settings:
1. Navigate to orbilogin.net
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Navigate to Advanced Setup
4. Select Wireless Settings
5. Navigate to "Transmit Power Control" under (5GHz 802.11a/n/ac)
Please let me know if this information was helpful!!
Look forward to hearing from you!!
Best,
Kevin
Community Team
Hello, I double check this before and it was 100% still. I did change it to 25% a few weeks ago to be able to setup some iot stuff, but it was changed back to 100% for sure.
Since I couldn't solve the problem I did a unwanted factory reset today and it looks good so far. It's good to have full power again, but not great to know I may need to do that again and lose my configs.
Thanks all for help
No luck getting the devices to restrict themselves to 5G WiFi?
No luck at all, those steps were interesting but didn't bring any result.
Again, at least today it worked like it was supposed to.
