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Orbi Daisy Chain & How long before something connects to satellites
Ok Guys.
A couple things that kind of confuse me and I'm wondering.
First off on my RBK33 with the plug in satelittes I have them hooked up again with the 2nd satellite just to see how th...
These are good questions.
steeve725 wrote:
I thought if I read it right (I may not have) with daisy chain the system is supposed to have one satellite go through one satellite to the other satellite then the router. I looked at my netgear page and it shows that both satellite's go directly through the router and the backhaul is good. Is this correct?
"Daisy Chain" means that satellites are allowed to connect through another satellite if that is a better connection than direct to the router. As the distance between these satellites is greater than the distance from either to the router, the system has calculated that the better connection is directly to the router. Satellites are not required to connect in a manner that is less efficient. This is what they should do.
steeve725 wrote:
How long is it before your device connects to a satellite normally?
Users are often puzzled because a device does not connect to the Orbi that they think "it ought to." Orbi has a system for comparing the signal a device gets from the router and satellite and deciding whether it would be enough better to make changing worth while. There is also a parameter in the "Advanced" tab under "Wireless Settings" (on the Orbi web interface) called "Enable Fast Roaming" which may affect how often Orbi looks at changing connections. If a device is getting good service connected to the router, why would the Orbi force it to connect to a sattelite?
steeve725 wrote:
Also, I noticed a couple times in the last day or two something a little puzziling with my ring floodlight camera thats mounted on the outside my house. Its mounted on the same wall as my living room satellite is located inside. A couple times it wont show up on my orbi app connected to any device, however if I look at the camera through its app, it shows connected to my internet and working fine. Why would it not show up on my orbi app as connected to any device? This is the only device that I've noticed doing this.
My Nest thermostat does this as well. The Nest "does not talk" unless it has a reason to. i.e. when I connect to it using my smartphone app, it appears on "Attached Devices". Once I cut the connection, it disappears shortly after. You can test to see if the Ring camera does the same thing. i.e. Look on Attached Devices. If the Ring is not there, connect to it (and do almost anything. set a parameter. stream a video. whatever.) While you are doing that, refresh Attached Devices and see if the Ring appears. (Actually, I use a desktop connection to the Orbi web interface and my thermostat just "suddenly appears" on Attached Devices without me doing a refresh or anything.)
Hope I am being helpful. Usually, when I am totally wrong, someone will speak up and give a correct response.
CrimpOn wrote:
........ Orbi has a system for comparing the signal a device gets from the router and satellite and deciding whether it would be enough better to make changing worth while.
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It's actually the mobile device who decides if and when to move from one node to another. The thresholds for when to move are different from a mobile device to another.
For most devices, if the device thinks that it has a good connection to the Orbi Router it will not device to roam to the Satellite unless the signal level from the Router drops beyond a defined threshold set in the device even if the signal from the Satellite is better (if the device is closer to the Satellite). In this case if you switch off wifi on the device and switch it on then it will select the node with better wifi signal which is probably the Satellite.
