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Orbi - why can't we change channels on satellites?
Wireless design best practice when installing multiple access points in an area is to have non-overlapping channels. So if you have 3 APs (RBR50, 2-RBS50) in an area, for 2.4 GHz, one AP would be cha...
I saw another thread re: reducing power - I'll have to try that and see what happens.
My Internet speeds are severly limited by Uvers and the VRAD being a mile from my house but I have noticed uploads from my PC in the garage directly below the main router vary all over the place - good days, 20MBps+ to bad days 3MBps...Also seems to depend on the precise location of my garage PC (I use it for my astrophotography data collection) so I suspect multi-path issues as well. But a portable disk drive is always a viable alternative...
Throughput is more a function of signal-to-noise ratio. Your signal from the AP should be 20db above any other AP on the same or adjacent channel. Where is there a power setting on the Orbi?
@astrojohn wrote:
I saw another thread re: reducing power - I'll have to try that and see what happens.
My Internet speeds are severly limited by Uvers and the VRAD being a mile from my house but I have noticed uploads from my PC in the garage directly below the main router vary all over the place - good days, 20MBps+ to bad days 3MBps...Also seems to depend on the precise location of my garage PC (I use it for my astrophotography data collection) so I suspect multi-path issues as well. But a portable disk drive is always a viable alternative...
20 dBm!! I WISH! My neighbors WiFi is stronger than my own in some areas of the house, that's why I wanted to try the Orbi. My Asus router worked pretty well but I had to be especially watchful of channel congestion and change the Asus channels as needed - often.
I did reduce the Orbi power to 75% to see what happens. I did notice the backhaul seems to be unaffected but maybe a 25% reduction wasn't enough to see.
BTW, the power level is in the advanced area.
Let us know how it goes...
astrojohn wrote:
20 dBm!! I WISH! My neighbors WiFi is stronger than my own in some areas of the house, that's why I wanted to try the Orbi. My Asus router worked pretty well but I had to be especially watchful of channel congestion and change the Asus channels as needed - often.
I did reduce the Orbi power to 75% to see what happens. I did notice the backhaul seems to be unaffected but maybe a 25% reduction wasn't enough to see.
BTW, the power level is in the advanced area.
Stated where? Where does their installation guide say Orbi satellites should be a minimum of 30 feet from the router and each other to prevent co-channel interference? The problem is the backhaul (on 5GHz) is more sensitive to distance than 2.4 GHz. If you get the router and satellite too far away for a good signal, overall performance is affected. The Orbi could achieve even higher performance if they allowed the channels to be changed on the satellites.
Case850 wrote:
Netgear's stated target market for the Orbi is for the "Networking Novice to quickly establish a home Wi-Fi network".
If you understand that, then you should understand why Netgear don't provide many of the configuration options offered in more commercial products.
Having said that, their ability to deliver a simple, basic working product seems to be falling short.
> Netgear's stated target market for the Orbi is for the "Networking Novice to quickly establish a home Wi-Fi network".
This doesn't mean the whole mesh has to use same channel, does it?
It also doesn't mean the product can't offer "expert features".
