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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-...
You can try reducing the power of Orbi's 5 GHz radio and/or moving it farther from the HDMI link. However, if the HDMI link is susceptible to interference from 5 GHz wifi, it's not really an Orbi issue, and you might need to find another HDMI solution.
st_shaw wrote:You can try reducing the power of Orbi's 5 GHz radio and/or moving it farther from the HDMI link. However, if the HDMI link is susceptible to interference from 5 GHz wifi, it's not really an Orbi issue, and you might need to find another HDMI solution.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I have disabled the client-facing 5GHz on the Orbi and it doesn't make a difference re. fixing the IOgear problem; I've also had other 5GHz routers in the house that have not caused interference with the IOgear. That's why I suspect it's the backhaul that's causing the problem.
Ok. Got it. You still might be able to improve things by relocating the Orbis. And If you could run a piece of coax for the TV, that would be much better than the IOgear.
st_shaw wrote:Ok. Got it. You still might be able to improve things by relocating the Orbis. And If you could run a piece of coax for the TV, that would be much better than the IOgear.
Yeah, I'm going to try relocating the Orbi base, but all of these things naturally want to be near the TV (the Orbi because it's connected to the cable modem, the IOgear because... yeah).
Running coax (or, more likely, HDMI) is not really an option in this configuration as the cable box and the projector are on different floors and more than 30' away from one another. It would be a very expensive solution to something that was working pretty well before the Orbi came along. (You can imagine someone else with a wall-mount cablefree solution not wanting to just "run a piece of coax" either.)
My issue isn't the fact that there's interference -- I understand that there might well be. The issue is that neither IOgear or Netgear ever put one word into their documentation or marketing to suggest that these products might not play nicely together. Given that I had the IOgear first, and that the Orbi is obviously a premium solution for Wi-Fi, I might have skipped over it in favor of something else that wouldn't stomp on other 5GHz links.
MikeTRose wrote:
st_shaw wrote:Ok. Got it. You still might be able to improve things by relocating the Orbis. And If you could run a piece of coax for the TV, that would be much better than the IOgear.
Yeah, I'm going to try relocating the Orbi base, but all of these things naturally want to be near the TV (the Orbi because it's connected to the cable modem, the IOgear because... yeah).
Running coax (or, more likely, HDMI) is not really an option in this configuration as the cable box and the projector are on different floors and more than 30' away from one another. It would be a very expensive solution to something that was working pretty well before the Orbi came along. (You can imagine someone else with a wall-mount cablefree solution not wanting to just "run a piece of coax" either.)
My issue isn't the fact that there's interference -- I understand that there might well be. The issue is that neither IOgear or Netgear ever put one word into their documentation or marketing to suggest that these products might not play nicely together. Given that I had the IOgear first, and that the Orbi is obviously a premium solution for Wi-Fi, I might have skipped over it in favor of something else that wouldn't stomp on other 5GHz links.
When I said coax, I was envisioning installing a second cable box, Tivo Mini, etc., not trying to run the HDMI that far. Many homes have been retrofit with coax since cable TV became popular.
I agree with you regarding the interference. That's what I don't like about consumer gear, or so-called plug and play solutions. They don't tell you what's going on behind the curtain, and they don't let you change settings. If it works, great. If not, you're stuck.
> When I said coax, I was envisioning installing a second cable box, Tivo Mini, etc., not trying to run the HDMI that far. Many homes have been retrofit with coax since cable TV became popular.
Yep. I don't really want to pay for a 2nd STB given the remarkably small amount of time we spend watching cable. The projector already has a Fire TV Stick which works great for everything except (some) live and DVR content. But I would like to be able to watch Saturday Night Live in the living room without shutting off the Wi-Fi.
I am having the same issue with a conflict between my IOGear Wireless HDMI and Orbi. Are there no setting on the Orbi that can help avoid this?