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Netgear Orbi vs. IOgear Wireless HDMI
Here's a puzzler, where I may know the answer but it's not one I'm going to like... I've had WiFi challenges (new house) since we moved in March... cycled through the provided Optimum/Cablevision D-...
MikeTRose wrote:Here's a puzzler, where I may know the answer but it's not one I'm going to like...
I've had WiFi challenges (new house) since we moved in March... cycled through the provided Optimum/Cablevision D-Link, an Almond+, and a TP-Link Archer C7 with no consistent performance... until this week, when I splurged on a Netgear Orbi base+2 satellite system. A couple of firmware upgrades later and everything is working more smoothly than ever before.
There's only one big fly in the ointment: we have an IOgear Wireless HD Digital kit https://www.iogear.com/product/GW3DHDKIT/ to transmit set-top box signal from the 2nd floor, where the cable box (and router) are, to the living room & projector. Although previously the IOgear unit worked (mostly) fine, acquiring signal and keeping good picture quality, last night it failed to sync for minutes at a time, and when it did get a lock the signal was jittery and full of noise.
I suspect -- and again, I am not happy to be headed down this road -- that the Orbi's 5GHz backhaul connection between the base and satellite units is stomping on the IOgear's wireless HDMI signal. A handful of Amazon reviews and forum posts indicate something similar.
Does anyone have experience with this particular combo? Recommendations for isolating the two bands?
get a wireless app like inssider and see what channel the iogear is tranmitting on as it may be in the lower 5 gig and you could then change / set the orbi 5 gig so they dont conflict
if the iogear is on the upper channels try rebooting the orbi system with the iogear turned on and the orbi may detect the iogear and put its backhaul on another channel
peteytesting wrote:
get a wireless app like inssider and see what channel the iogear is tranmitting on as it may be in the lower 5 gig and you could then change / set the orbi 5 gig so they dont conflict
Unfortunately, the IOgear doesn't use WiFi -- just bandwidth in the 5GHz range, so inSSIDer doesn't see it. (Tried that earlier today.)
if the iogear is on the upper channels try rebooting the orbi system with the iogear turned on and the orbi may detect the iogear and put its backhaul on another channel
Interesting... might try that and see. My understanding is that the Orbi backhaul is a pretty hefty chunk of channel, but might help.
MikeTRose wrote:
peteytesting wrote:get a wireless app like inssider and see what channel the iogear is tranmitting on as it may be in the lower 5 gig and you could then change / set the orbi 5 gig so they dont conflict
Unfortunately, the IOgear doesn't use WiFi -- just bandwidth in the 5GHz range, so inSSIDer doesn't see it. (Tried that earlier today.)
if the iogear is on the upper channels try rebooting the orbi system with the iogear turned on and the orbi may detect the iogear and put its backhaul on another channel
Interesting... might try that and see. My understanding is that the Orbi backhaul is a pretty hefty chunk of channel, but might help.
the iogear must be on a channel as i cant see how it would work otherwsie are you sure you used a 5 gig wifi adapter
yes it uses 80ghz but should try and avoid interference where it can
peteytesting wrote:
the iogear must be on a channel as i cant see how it would work otherwsie are you sure you used a 5 gig wifi adapter
yes it uses 80ghz but should try and avoid interference where it can
There are numerous things that use the same frequecny band as WiFi, and interfere with WiFi, but that do not appear in a WiFi scanning tool. Examples include Bluetooth devices, Zigbee devices, the Sonos 5 GHz ineter-speaker links, and the Vizio soundbar another poster on here descried. I believe the Orbi's own 5 G Hz backhaul is also not shown on WiFi scanning software (at least I've never seen it.)
i see the orbi one all the time its on ch 116 or something like that , your adapter would need to set to use the dfs channels to see it