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Orbi RBR50 + Satellite wifi dropouts, wired/wireless setup
Hi all! I have a RBK50 system (RBR50 router + RBS50 satellite) which is giving me lots of trouble with the wifi connection. Let me explain my setup please: Internet comes from the ISP router in b...
Thank you for your answer!
- I've updated both router and satellite to 2.6.140
- I've moved my satellite upstairs (I live in a duplex), to the opposite side of the house (>30 feet), and now it's connected by ethernet to the TP-Link switch, so I have wired backhaul.
I'll wait for a day to see how it performs, but I'm afraid that now I have some dead zones downstairs that I did not have before (maybe adding a RBS20 satellite downstairs would help? But it would be a bit less that 30 feet to the router, with some walls inbetween though...).
BTW, my Advanced Wireless settings are:
20/40 MHz Coexistence enabled
WMM enabled for 2.4 and 5GHz
Daisy chain topology disabled
Implicit Beamforming enabled
MU-MIMO enabled
Fast roaming disabled
...bad experience with the new Satellite placement (annoying dead zones). I've moved it to another point (still upstairs) and now everything seems fine (without wired backhaul though). Let's see how this performs in terms of wifi dropouts...
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Well, after some days of testing, the situation stays the same: frequent dropouts in wireless internet, sometimes for a long time (several hours yesterday). It's really annoying, not only because you can't do any surfing, but specially because critical devices like hue lights, smart lock, etc... are completely unreliable.
After searching for answers in this forum, I see that it's a very frequent problem (rbr50 dropouts site:community.netgear.com), so I'm afraid that the whole system is unstable by nature. This is what supposedly serious and specialized reviews don't tell you. I'm planning to replace it with some other brand.
Try downgrading to v16 as a last resort. Possible you have a faulty system as well.
Good Luck.
