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jdstephe
Tutor
Oct 09, 2016

Orbi WiFi System

I seem to be getting modulation of my Orbi router for what appears to be the 2.4GHz network on Channel 8.

Both my base and satellite are exhibiting the same behavior. I have signal strengths that pulse between 100% and 4% every couple of seconds.

I have AT&T U-Verse at 50Mbps.

The 5GHz service seems to be fine. Any suggestions?

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  • peteytesting's avatar
    peteytesting
    Hero
    Oct 09, 2016

    hi

     

    set the 2.4 gig ch to ethe ch 1 or 6 or 11 depending on whats around you wifi wise

  • itGeeks's avatar
    itGeeks
    Apprentice
    Oct 10, 2016

    Other then what petey said did you turn off the wireess on the U-Verse router? If not now is a good time to do it.

  • jdstephe's avatar
    jdstephe
    Tutor
    Oct 10, 2016
    Thanks for the help so far.
    I h e switched to channel 11 since a scan on my environment with vistumbler showed this wasn't being overly used near me.
    I had already switched off the wireless on U-Verse. One question I have on this - is it better to set Orbi to be in router mode or AP mode? What determines the best approach...?
    • itGeeks's avatar
      itGeeks
      Apprentice
      Oct 10, 2016

      That would all depend on what you want to do, There is no one right answer. If you want to create a different subnet from the U-Verse then you wan't router mode and as I do I hang my 3rd party router off the ISP's router in a DMZ so you don't have to do port forwarding rules on both devices however if you don't care that your network is on the same subnet as U-Verse then you want 'bridge mode' aka AP mode.