Orbi cross floor penetration

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3LevelTerrace wrote:

............ In the living room at the top of the stairs the wifi connectivity is ok but signal strength fluctuates (not sure why) - it can go from four bars to two very suddenly. ........

 

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3LevelTerrace wrote:

Hi All,

 

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. In the living room at the top of the stairs the wifi connectivity is ok but signal strength fluctuates (not sure why) - it can go from four bars to two very suddenly. ..........

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• It's very difficult to guess without a wifi scan. Please make a wifi radio scan in your place, specially around the place you plan to place the Orbi Router and Satellites.
• When you see the wifi signal fluctuating in the living room, do you know if the device is then connected to the 2.4 or 5 GHz bands in your current router? If it's connected to the 5 GHz then most pobably Orbi backhaul will work fine because of the following reasons:

1. Your current 5 GHz is likely using the low 5 GHz band which can be quite congested in most places. A wifi scan would confirm this. Orbi backhaul uses the high 5 GHz band which is less frquently used and will have lower interference and thus better reacheability.
2. The backhaul antennas in the Orbi 50 series (which is recommended in your case) are quite powerful and better than any other home-wifi router, so likely it will provide better backhaul coverage than what you currently experience.