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ORBI satellite connections RBS20
I just purchased an RBR20 and RBS20 combo from costco. I did this because my front door bell is having a problem connecting to my old router in the media room. I located the satellite close to the ...
huffstar wrote:
I just purchased an RBR20 and RBS20 combo from costco. I did this because my front door bell is having a problem connecting to my old router in the media room. I located the satellite close to the front door with the idea of having the door bell connect to it for better access.
The door bell is still connecting to the router in the media room and the signal is still weak. I can't find anything on how to tell a device to connect to the satellite instead. I would think a simple unique name for the satellite woulld have been the case but I don't see that you can give it a name.
Any ideas out there on how to do this? If I don't get a solution, the whole thing is going to be returned because it is useless to me if I can't get the door bell to connect to the satellite every time it initializes.
What is the setup procedures to connect the doorbell to your wifi? Is there a freq (2.4G or 5G) restriction?
The door bell is 2.4 ghz only. With my old router, only the 2.4 network name showed up for a connection even though I have a 2.4 an 5 with different network names. The new router does not have a separate network name. It somehow figures out if it can connect to 5 and does so if it can. My iphone X for example shows as a 5G connection but I can only select the one network name configured for the new router.
Try lowering the power of the 5Ghz radio on the Orbi? Then see if the device connects?
Any of the suggestions work?
You can try this:
Separate SSIDs:
https://blog.jocelynlagarenne.fr/jsn/index.php/integration/114-how-to-get-different-ssid-on-orbi-mesh-wifi-2-4-5ghz
Disable 5Ghz radio:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/HOW-TO-DISABLE-5G-TEMPORARILY-ON-ORBI-ROUTER/m-p/1566398#M31219Not recommneded as this defeats the Orbis MESH design and operation.
huffstar wrote:
The door bell is 2.4 ghz only. With my old router, only the 2.4 network name showed up for a connection even though I have a 2.4 an 5 with different network names. The new router does not have a separate network name. It somehow figures out if it can connect to 5 and does so if it can. My iphone X for example shows as a 5G connection but I can only select the one network name configured for the new router.
Not recommneded as this defeats the Orbis MESH design and operation.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/HOW-TO-DISABLE-5G-TEMPORARILY-ON-ORBI-ROUTER/m-p/1566398#M31219tell that to those who have made it work....
