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Interference with Wii U gamepad?
I just bought the Orbi 3000 kit and so far I'm impressed with how well it works for now (not sure what optimizations I need to do but the backhaul is definitely not transmitting at 1.7Gbps). Last night I ran into my first relatively large issue with it.
My son plays with the Wii U fairly often and started complaining that the controller wasn't working. I checked and it seems like there is quite a bit of interference between it and the main unit. When you move closer to the Wii U, the gamepad becomes normally responsive but when you move away; it stutters, lags, and eventually looses connection.
The only recent change in my house setup has been moving from my R7000 to the Orbi. I know that the Wii U uses some kind of proprietary implementation of 2.4GHz. Is this a known issue? Is there some setting I can change in the settings of either the main Orbi or the Sattelite that would play nice with the Wii U gamepad?
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ry going into the Orbi settings and manually setting the 2.4GHz channel to 1, 6, or 11 instead of leaving it on auto, that alone often fixes stability issues. If your system allows it, separating the 2.4GHz and 5GHz SSIDs can also help stop band steering confusion. Also make sure the satellite isn’t placed too close to the Wii U since that can sometimes overload the weaker gamepad signal.
Update: Upon some further research, apparently the Wii U uses the 5GHz band to talk to the controller. It also apparently sticks to the lower bands which explains why I didn't see this on my R7000 as I kept that one on the higher channels for 5GHz.