Orbi Satellite Slowdown

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Bandito wrote:

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it would appear by the connection speeds that the backhaul is dropping down to one of the 2.4 GHz bands, but the system still reports that it’s connected via 5 GHz.  It’s really frustrating and ruins the experience of an otherwise great system. <Sigh>

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Backhaul links in Orbi use DFS channels. It can be that periodically your Orbi detects radar signals and changes the backhaul to other channels which will affect the throughput.

There is a log file in Orbi that logs radar detections with timestamps. Please follow the following steps to print your radar detection logs and see if the times correspond with when you think the speed goes down:

1. From browser go to the router's debug page (http://192.168.1.1/debug.htm). Use your router's IP address or http://orbilogin.com/debug.htm
2. Enter admin as user name and your router’s management password
3. Tick "Enable Telnet" option
4. Use Telnet to connect to your Router telnet 192.168.1.1 and enter admin and the same password as above
5. Enter the command:
   1. root@RBR50:~# cat /var/radardetect.log

I checked for the radardetect.log file, but it doesn't exist.

root@RBR50:/# cat /var/radardetect.log

cat: can't open '/var/radardetect.log': No such file or directory

I also browsed through the /var directory to see if there was anything else that came close to the radar name, but there was nothing.

I didn't think that this was very likely as we live in the middle of a large development with slow speeds and are about a mile away from the nearest highway.

Thanks for the recommendation.  It's always good to check everything, but unfortunately it appears to be another dead end.