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ClintoKL
Mar 03, 2018Apprentice
Orbi Satelittes
Currently have the RB50 router and 2 RBS50 satelittes. I live in a 3 story townhouse with walls like faraday cages. I swear Superman himself could not see through our walls. Anyway I recently bought ...
FURRYe38
Mar 03, 2018Guru - Experienced User
your building materials are thick and heavy, this will have issues with any 5Ghz radio. Due to high frequency of 5Ghz, building materials of any kind impact 5Ghz. Nature of the beast. If your getting some signal, i would move the Satellie closer to the router as possible.
In cases like building materials having a big factor, you should concider puttin in some CAT6A lan cabling either in wall or cieling from the router area to the remote area. Then you could use this as your back haul for the Satellie and mostly be a remote AP. Seems like you need to get some wired connections in place as a suggestion.