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Disconnect & reconnect when I walk between router & satellite
I have been using RBK50 (one router RBR50 & one satellite RBS50, under Firmware V2.2.1.210) for several months, everything was fine ... until I recently discovered when I walk away from my router tow...
If your backhaul status shows "good", and your router and satellite are not too distant from each other, then you could look to see if you have "fast roaming" checked or unchecked. You could play with this. Also the "beam forming". I found beam forming to be counter productive for my situation and have it disabled. Depending on your individual situation, some of that could be with your phone also. Fast roaming eliminates re-authenticaton from one AP to the other, but in some situations that is good or bad depending on the phone and environment. Also leave your phone in various spots and check how it is connected (2.4 or 5GHz) on "attached devices" to get a sense if it is changing from 5GHz to 2.4GHz before it drops and then where it drops. If available try with a different phone for comparison.
Thank you JoeCymru.
Before I post this enquiry, my setting was Beamforming-ON, Fast Roaming-OFF. After I read your suggestion, I tried all combinations, both ON, both OFF, either one ON and other OFF. Unfortunately, none of these helped. I also tried your recommendation to see how the phone's wifi is connected, yes whenever it got disconnected/ reconnected, it's switching between 5GHz to 2.4 GHz and vice versa.
Actually, I'm not so technical, all I need is a seamless Wifi in my house without any switch of SSID and dead corner. That's why I picked Orbi, not sure if that was a wrong decision.
EKRW wrote:
............., yes whenever it got disconnected/ reconnected, it's switching between 5GHz to 2.4 GHz and vice versa.
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If the device changes between bands while moving between the base stations (router and satellites) then this shows that your base stations are far away from each other and that you don't have enough overlap between them. Do you have the possibility to get the units closer to each other and see if you get any improvement?
Thank you ekhalil.
The disconnection/ reconnection on my phone (and also some other devices) happens when I "walk into a 3-5 feet distance of the router or satellite and stop for around 10-15 seconds". All other locations are fine including the mid-way between router & satellite; so seems like there is no dead zone between them from my view.
