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Orbi stability and Sonos tips required
Hi all, I am in a ground floor flat which is an old building and quite spread out. There have been dead spots in the past with wireless and I have used home plugs as a solution but have been more...
Just wondering if you have these issues when the router and satellite are close together. That’s the first thing I did was experiment with the distance between the router and satellite. I don’t care how powerful and directional the Orbi is. If the router and satellite cannot maintain a quality signal at speeds, your going to get erratic results. I have mine separated by two floors, pretty open floor plan, rock solid.
I have the following and have run several stress tests, streaming as much as I can to saturate the network.
8 Sonos units (3 PlayOne for Alexa)
3 Apple TVs,
1 Apple TV 4K
5 Webcams,
Lorex Security Cameras,
4 iPads,
3 iPhones,
ISY Home automation,
Insteon Home Automation (own mesh network),
Dish TV,
FIng,
pfSense,
2 Logitech Harmony
1 MacPro
1 MacMini
1 Windows 10 Laptop
3 Amazon Echo Dots
12TB Synology NAS
Kodi Streaming
Digital Picture Frame
Epson 845 AIO Printer
Xbox 360
on the Network now, not an issue except for iPhone 6 getting stuck on 2.4Ghz occasionally.