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Orbi RBR50 range problem
Two days ago I replaced my AmplifyHD mesh router with Orbi. Orbi RBR50 to be exact. I have a 4 story home (including the finished basement). Old. Plaster walls. I was not happy with Amplify...
Will726 wrote:After tweaking various settings and relocating my satelites to different places to no avail the Orbi while providing nice fast speeds has no where near the range my AmplifyHD did. There are dead spots my prior mesh system reached that Orbi does not. I have wifi cams all around and many are now just out of range not finding the SSID. How many access points were in the AmplifyHD system? Where were they located relative to the new Orbi units? Were (and are) the "dead spots" at both 2.4G and 5G?
How can this be given the price but also that Orbi is a tri-band? What am I missing? How can the range (distance) be so bad?
"Tri-Band" refers to having "three WiFi channels" (1) 2.4G channel for user devices, (1) 5G channel for user devices, and (1) 5G "backhaul" channel for the satellites to communicate with the router. (1+1+1=3). Each channel has a separate radio and two antennas (six total). The point of this design is to separate traffic to allow more total throughput. The AmplifyHD has two radios and two antennas.
Thanks in advance for saving my Orbi -- I'm about to return it.
For my Amplify I had one router and 3 mesh points. For my Orbi I have one router and two satelites. I have tested putting the two satelites where the meshes were (minus one). My expectation here was that Orbi would be better. The satelites are more than double the cost of the Amplify mesh points.