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iayork
Oct 01, 2018Aspirant
Orbi and vertical signal
I just installed an RBR50 router and satellite to replace the Pace 5268AC AT&T fiber modem. Both router and satellite are on my main floor, and they seem to be doing very well on that floor. But they...
Blanca_O
Oct 08, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi iayork,
Have you tried changing the channel on the router? You may want to try to play around with the channels to see which channel is best to use.
Regards,
Blanca
Community Team
iayork
Oct 08, 2018Aspirant
Thanks, I just tried varying the channels; I did find one that gives slightly better speeds to the rest of the house (e.g. 420 instead of 350 Mbps), but the problematic areas were basically unchanged, still 40 or less.
The change from high to low speed is quite abrupt as I enter the 2nd floor, making me wonder if there's some metal or other interference in a wall, but that doesn't explain why the old router was able to deliver 200 Mbps to the same place.