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Expanding ORBI RBR50 system
I have a system comprised of an RBR50 router and an RBS50 satellite. To expand my coverage I bought an RBW20 to plug into a wall socket. I wanted to extend the system in a straight line ie from RBR...
plemans wrote:
How far apart are they? They need a minimum of 30 ft between then to function appropriately.
I know that there is an old KnowledgeBase article that says this, but does anyone have any decent evidence to support this strange idea?
It is not my experience.
michaelkenward wrote:
plemans wrote:How far apart are they? They need a minimum of 30 ft between then to function appropriately.
I know that there is an old KnowledgeBase article that says this, but does anyone have any decent evidence to support this strange idea?
It is not my experience.
I've had a couple people on here report good results with seperating out the distance. I also had better results (on older firmware) when I seperated them out in my house. My house isn't huge (3200sq ft) and I was running 3x satellites. Seperation helped with stability a lot. Again, this was multiple generations of firmware ago so who knows if it was firmware optimizations that helped it or the moving the router/satellites around.
plemans wrote:Again, this was multiple generations of firmware ago so who knows if it was firmware optimizations that helped it or the moving the router/satellites around.
That's the bit that makes me suspicious. Something written three years ago is well behind the curve, especially for new technology like this. Without sort of explanation, I take that particular bit in the KnowledgeBase with a pinch of salt.
My approach is to do what you did, experiment, but don't insist that there has to be some magic separation. After all, this is not information that appears in manuals.
For some people, 30 feet means put it at the bottom of the garden. Advice in other contexts, Arlo for example, is that 30 feet is about as far as you can stretch the wifi.