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Orbi RBS20 satellite looses connection - FIXED
I wanted to share my experience here as I found so many frustrated Orbi users on the forum.
My Story
I have a medium sized home (170 m2), but it's built from solid concrete and in some pl...
Based on what you mentioned, your building materials are effecting wifi signals. This is nature of the beast. Of course wire connect youre satellite will work and in this case, turns it into a AP instead of it connecting to the base router and since building materials are a factor here, would not work well. Not all building materials are the same, so not everyone one would be effected by this. Just depends on buiding materials is all. I ran my satellite wireless and had great connection with the base. However my home is just wood and sheet rock built. So not much interferences from that.
Can you found that wiring up your satellite worked for you.
Enjoy.
So, just to clarify, I did not hard wire the satellite, the satellite is downstairs and the router upstairs. They are communicating over the 5GHz wireless with a 'good' backhaul status.
I ran a 10m cable from my ISP modem on one side of the room to the Orbi Router on the other side of the room, simply allowing the Orbi Router to sit in a location which means I can get a good connection status over the Wifi backhaul to the Satelite using 5GHz. The Orbi router is in 'Router mode', not 'AP' and the Orbi is handing out the IP addresses.
Connection Status Update:
Really pleased, my satellite has been connected to the network for over 8 hours with no disconnects. Will report back again in a few days.
Placement is key and in any way you can get better placement of the base router in the home in relation to the satellite will be key.
Glad it working better for you. Enjoy.