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Orbi Satellite RBK50
Why my Orbi satellite-1 in the Backhaul Status shows POOR?
this satellite is about 30 to 35 feet from the main Orbi base
my home is about 1750' sf
my internet speed is 120 mb
Check to see if daisy chain is toggled on or off. I had that experience one time on an update where daisy chain was automatically toggled on and I had a poor backhaul on one of my satellites. Not that daisy chain mode causes it, but one or the other (on or off) could be better for the backhaul.
I didn't buy the 2nd satelltite yet. trying to figure out if it would do any good. less than 20 feet through the floor from the satellite. no duct work in the way.
I don’t know if this helps... normally the satellite link in my House is ‘good’ but today trying to solve a problem where a distant device was not connecting I turned on beam forming under the advanced settings. This solved the problem with the connection I had, but then I noticed the satellite link was now ‘poor’. Having said that performance is fine, and there are no LEDs lit on either orbi. I wonder if there is a bug in the connected devices display??
I raise the satellite about 4 feet more and turn it off and back on again and I see the status changed to GOOD. :)
I noticed the same thing with the indicator on the backhaul especially if you have a poweroutage & lets say the satelites come up before the router they will show poor in the attached devices screen.. the only way I saw to fix this was to reset the router, then after that unplug the satelites and one by one plug them in.. once you do that at least for me they say good.. however if one looses power or one is moved too far once the status changes to poor it never changes back to good. I do think its another bug lol