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frustrated Netgear makes the decision to put 43S in star mode when I want it in mesh (Daisy Chain)
Hi I just purchased the Orbi rbk 43s ( sorry I chose on top rbk 53S that was the only one listed or allowed me to chose) from Best Buy and it's the 3 pack. The performace of the product as far as speed and not cutting out is great. Compared to the linksys I can control a lot more and see somewhat more with the app both on phone and website. with both manufactures it would be nice if you can put in the linkspeed between the node and router but at least netgear puts in the linkspeed between node and the device.
I really want to keep this but I'm upset. There is a setting on here that enables Dasy chain. If you turn it off it will enable star. My 12 year old Nephew who is a PlayStation freak is someone I bought this for. Logan's room is behind an acordian gate and wall and the router is 50 ft away from his room. Logan has a node is his room, and there is another node right behind logans room wall in the kitchen. My goal was to have the PlayStation hooked up to the node in his room it's only 3 ft away from the playstation. other devices nin his room goes for the bedroom node most of the time. The Playstation goes for the one in the living room which is 50 ft away. Logan's other devices IE (laptop tablet ect) that connects to logans room get's a nice linkspeed from 500 to 866. But his playstation get's 150 to 300. again (because the PlayStation hooks up to the living room router which is 50 ft away even though the node is 3 feet away.
I don't know why this is happening, but you know what I can't do anything about it and that is what I'm upset about. Even though Netgear has a setting for daisy chain to be enabled or disabled the machine makes the decision weather to put it in star mode or daisy chain and yes Netgear wants it in star mode. ( yes I am well aware star mode is less signal degeneration between hops because it's only 1 hop. But that is why I brought the Tri-band and upgrade my speed with my isp so I only get a 20% loss rather than a 50% like you get with a dual band. With that speed upgrade to 400 mbps from 100 mbps the 20% decline won't have an effect on Logan playing the playstation. So to to ruin my plan Netgear makes a smart router that makes a dumb decision.
My question is if you are going to have an option for a human to choose to enable daisy chain or not why goes Netgear go ahead and do something totally different. I do want both options daisy chain and star but I want to be able to choose it on my own and rely on my decision which one I want based on diagnostic or general speed comparisons. . Any ideas? are they going to implement this in future firmware updates? or must I research another manufacture to allow me to make the choices I want and give me the speed and performance that I want. (which I prefer not to.) If you are going to ask me to run a 50 ft wire from my router to the node that is out of the question that’s not why I brought this. Why run it to the node I can run it to the PlayStation. The idea was to have this wireless and that why I bought it.
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if the satellite is 3 ft from the playstation, why don't you direct wire the playstation to the satellite? The satellite is going to have a better backhaul than the playstation.
Plus you can't trust playstations speedtest setup. They're not always using the optimal server.
The whole Idea was not to have wires, and my post was relating to why put an option to enable dasiy chain if it don't do it. I'm still upset about that. But I did move the satellite away from the kithen behind and up high above cabinets and moved it 20 to 30 ft infront of the router in the livingroom which is further away from his room. yesterday I was able to get in Logan's room when he was not home and tested the reception on my laptop & which I turned on in Logan's room I was able to link my laptop to logan's Node. I was getting an 866 linkspeed and around 350 to 380 mbps on my laptop and phone off that Node. Logan's has not been here but he left his play station on and since I moved the node as mentioned before from up high above the kitchen cabinet's to front part of the livingroom his play station has been in sleep mode or whatever you call it and is now getting the signal off Logan's room node in sleep mode at 433 and hasn't roamed in 36 hours. (I don't go on the play station) so I'm happy for now.
Just as a matter of principal if they advertise this unit as a mesh unit but it works as a star unit there either shouldn't be an option to put it in dasy chain mode. My preference would have been 3 options dasy chain star or auto. then the box or ad wouldn't be misleading. To end this correctly I am very happy with the hardware at around 40 to 50 ft away and connected by by external satellite he's getting full speed. and since I moved that node from the kitchen up high the laundry room, kitchen, logan's room, Logan's dad's room and my room we are all getting 350 mbps speed so I can't complain.
It does have the option to daisy chain (mine does) but its more the router is able to figure out if star or daisy chain is going to be more efficient. Why would it setup in daisy chain if star worked better for speed? You might have just had it to close as the orbi devices need minimum of 30ft of seperation to function properly with roaming and configuration.
I'm happy to see you have it working with the speeds you desire.
