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Orbi RBR50 RF interference
Firmware v.2.7.424 I have an Orbi Mesh RBR50 system with 2 satellites. 1 is connected via Ethernet, the other by Mesh. I am on a Radio Frequency Internet service, not WIFI. The Radio Re...
jefferis wrote:
I am on a Radio Frequency Internet service, not WIFI. The Radio Receiver is on the frequency of 5775.
While this might be not implicitly or explicitly WiFi, this PtP or PtmP system does operate on the standard Unlicensed Spectrum - the same frequencies and channels in use for WiFi and other applications like audio or video distribution for example. What was a great idea when the vendors and ISP started to deploy - because the usage of this spectrum was low - times have massively changed in the last years. This is very different from systems like mobile networks, which are making use of licensed bands.
Considering modern WiFi systems - especially WiFi 6 and much more WiFi 7 (Mesh or not is not relevant) are extremely ressource and bandwidth hungry covering many homes are making the deployment of such PtP or PtmP networks using these unlicensed bands very difficult if not impossible.
I give you another example. In sport venues with some 2500 to 12500 seats, there is not only the mobile network on-air. There are also very dense WiFi networks deployed on he 2.4 and 5 GHz band. Everting went well with using the hand full of in-house video production cameras were equipped with 6 GHz WiFi - until the day the WiFi network provider faced-in 6 GHz WiFi APs covering the complete venue, too. As a quick fix, we had to make them to agree to reserve a massive part of the 6 GHz unlicensed spectrum to protect the wireless in-house video production cameras.
This is what your ISP can't do, because your decent Orbi WiFi 6 system can use the same channels for the wireless backhaul. Still, they challenge you for freeing up this 57xx MHz channels in favor of their wireless ISP service. The day you are going to deploy even more 5 GHz and 6 GHz WiFi (and other) equipment their business model working on unlicensed band will bust - they will have to license and probably buy licensed bandwidth. Game over for them - unless they can bring fiber (or for the sake 2wire) to your home to provide you with sufficient bandwidth.