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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-...
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 channelInteresting... 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
peteytesting wrote: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
I'll have to look into that. My MacBook connects to DFS channels, but I'm not sure about my scanning software.