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do i need a satellite?
We have a 2000 sq ft house on one floor. We set up our Orbi RBK50 with a satellite on the other end of the house (where the wifi signal has been weaker with the previous router). There are a few se...
sarahgnm wrote:
We set up our Orbi RBK50 with a satellite on the other end of the house (where the wifi signal has been weaker with the previous router).
I would put the satellite somewhere between the router and the other end of the house. That's what the manual recommends.
If you can put the satellite half way between the router and the far end, the wifi from the satellite will still reach the dead zone and there will be a stronger connection between the router and the satellite.
I don't buy the notion that there should be 30 feet between router and satellites. It doesn't make sense technically and does not appear in the Orbi manual. More of an old wives' tale than anything.
Actually, with the older router, we did not have a dead zone, just a weak zone. The signal from this wifi router seems to be stronger.
The biggest issue we've noticed is the small gap in reception when moving from the zone of the router to the zone of the satellite. The transition from zone to zone is not seamless.
sarahgnm wrote:
The biggest issue we've noticed is the small gap in reception when moving from the zone of the router to the zone of the satellite. The transition from zone to zone is not seamless.
Maybe down to the wifi clients as much as anything.
I still think that trying with the satellite between the router and the far end might be a good idea.
But without more details on this gap in reception it is hard to diagnose what might be going on. Try playing around with the wifi settings.
I suspect that CrimpOn knows more than I do on that front.