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Kaput5
Feb 03, 2018Star
Orbi and Ring products issues
I recently switched from one router + repeater to the Orbi system. No installation problem. When I first connected my Ring Doorbell and 2 Ring Spotlight cameras, no connection issues. One camera ...
StuEd
Oct 30, 2018Aspirant
I had problems connecting two ring2 door bells to my Orbi satellite, I found on setting up the bells that they could find all my neighbours WiFi networks but not my own which was only 10feet away. The solution was to enable guest network on orby, this worked long enough for me to set up the door bells but the signal strength shown on the ring app was Rssi -65 and this was too weak to give a stable connection, I went in to router configuration and changed the wireless channel to 3 and enabled beam forming.
Now I have an Rssi on doorbell of -56 and all works well. Channel interference seems to be a problem with the Ring device
FURRYe38
Oct 30, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Can try this as well:
StuEd wrote:
I had problems connecting two ring2 door bells to my Orbi satellite, I found on setting up the bells that they could find all my neighbours WiFi networks but not my own which was only 10feet away. The solution was to enable guest network on orby, this worked long enough for me to set up the door bells but the signal strength shown on the ring app was Rssi -65 and this was too weak to give a stable connection, I went in to router configuration and changed the wireless channel to 3 and enabled beam forming.
Now I have an Rssi on doorbell of -56 and all works well. Channel interference seems to be a problem with the Ring device