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luisalvaradox
Oct 18, 2017Aspirant
Orbi 2.x Unable to Connect (iPhone 7s, Galaxy S7, S7 Edge & S8+, Samsung KS8500 TV)
The following is what I have been able to verify from about 2 weeks of experience and everything happens several times (2-6 times) a day. When using the firmware 1.x the issue was happening proba...
luisalvaradox
Oct 28, 2017Aspirant
After 6 days of testing, I started having issues this morning. The phone simply disconnected or not connect and give me the "There might not be internet" (Or something along those lines) warning for the SSID of the Orbi.
Here is the current settings I tried:
This time I tested with and without the 20/40 Coexistence. As it turns out, for phones that are connected to the satellite (Not directly to the main router), they ARE affected by this. The testing device was the Samsung S8+ Enabling this option create this game of connecting/disconnecting from the network every 30 seconds to a minute (Tested for 5 minutes). But the moment I disabled this, it connected correctly.
Now when it connected correctly, the internet speed (Which is 100mbps) was capped at 15mbps. To give you an idea, The router is in an office almost below where I was, but next to me was a satellite, so the phone was connecting to the satellite and the satellite to the main orbi router, still I was getting 15mpbs tops. This was all happening while the Daisy Chain was disabled. The moment I enabled Daisy Chain, all satellites jumped to 100mbps. All devices (TV, Phones, Laptops) that I use to test got speeds between 95 to 100mpbs, no matter the distance.
Lastly, I also did test MU-MIMO independently and IMPLICIT BEAMFORMING. Enabling any of this 2 options or both will cripple all devices connected to the satellites. The speeds will be somewhat limited to 20-25mbps but the connections will drop multiple times, to a point of not being able to easily navigate on internet.
That is the reason this options are also disabled and I left everything like in the image above. So everything is working correctly for 6 days and everything simply goes crazy. A good idea would be to ideally manage which satellites should use daisy technology and which ones you want to leave alone, including the option to actually reset/reboot a satellite (not factory reset) just to make sure there is no issue with it (memory leaks or something similar).
luisalvaradox
Nov 04, 2017Aspirant
It's been a week since my last post. After leaving the setting as is but turning all devices off and on, everything has been working correctly now. Tested multiple times every day on each satellite what the maximum internet was for it. On all cases I got my maximum of 100mbps which is correct. I am now able to watch Netflix 4k on 2 devices at the same time while also using plex inside the network on one device. Additionally I can also download from steam without any issues and maintain a meeting call with no issues at all.