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Location of satellite
Hi Everyone, I purchased the Orbi RBK50 set recently and would like to seek your advice regarding the placement of the satellite. I live in a small 1,200 square feet apartment. My source of inter...
Can you clarify slightly less than ISP speed? Over a wireless connection, connecting to satellite you wont be getting 100% of the speed. I think its perfectly fine you are not getting full speeds. I am on 1gig connection I can only get full speed hard wired in. But I suspect you have a slower connection but over wireless connecting to satellite, a little speed loss is pretty acceptable I would say.
Hi, nkd
I said I could only achieve less than 50% of the ISP speed in bedroom 3. Seems that my device is still connected to bedroom 1 when I move to bedroom 3, hence the poorer performance. However, if I turn wifi off and on and connect to the satellite in the living room, I could achieve almost 100% of the ISP speed. I think the problem is, even with fast roaming, beamforming on, the satellite still fail to connect when my device is nearer to it. Same issue with Velop.
OH, I was going by your original post where it says you were getting slightly less than full speed. May be I missed the 50% part lol..
You may want to place the satellite closer to room 3 to see how it does. I believe ORBIs have pretty good dedicated channel so they can handle the connection better.
If I place the satellite nearer, it would crash the entire system! I tried. Thanks.