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disable wireless backplane to avoid high frequency channels
I first got the Orbi mesh because our house did not have ethernet pulled to different parts of the house and i used the wireless backplane. We are in a new house now with wired cat 6 to several poi...
The Xbox One uses the high frequency range 5GHZ for the Xbox One proprietary wireless headset connection and the the Orbi backplane is also using the high frequency range. There is no setting on the Xbox One to change the frequency of the Xbox Direct wifi proptocal they use for the wireless headset.
Note this is totally different than the 5GHZ wifi being used in the house that the Orbi will let you change. Orbi will not let you change the backplane frequency.
So switching to a normal netgear or any other access point that just uses two radios, the 2.4 and the lower range 5Ghz would be fine. Its the fact the Orbi is using the high end range also for its backplane, which is the problem. I just need the high end radio interference turned off.
The back haul for Orbi is always enabled so if the ethernet connected is pulled or lost the RBS can reconnnect over the wireless backhaul radio.
Try turning down the power output of the 5Ghz radio to see if this helps any. How close is the xbox and controller to the Orbi RBR or RBS? IF close, you may want to put more distance between them.