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Plaster Walls - Orbi Fails
My house was built in 1949 and I used to have Apple Extreme and Express, 3 total. My house is only 1245 sq ft. 1) The Orbi signal is pretty good, but it drops and constantly needs to be reset or sy...
My house is built with concrete block as the shell. The interior walls are framed with 2x4s and covered in drywall. Additionally, the house has heavy "hock & trowel" plastering over the drywall for texture. Finally the oustide finish of the house is stucco. I currently have no difficulty getting a signal 2.4 gHz signal all the way outside my house to my pool equipment about 75' from the ORBI base satation. I also get decent WiFi to my solar panel controller nearly 80' away from the satellite through three concrete block walls.
One of the hints recently mentioned on this forum was to do an NVRAM reset and after that do a factory default reset. When those two are complete, reconfigure your ORBI as you want but do it manually. DO NOT USE any saved configuation files to reconfigure your ORBI. Additionally, after the reset/reconfigure DO NOT USE the built-in Speedtest on the QOS setup page. Apparently, that test mode is causing some users to have slow-downs and other anomolies.
Having said all that, I'm not a WiFi expert by any stretch of the imagination. I'm merely trying to help out with some potential fixes. Overall, I've been pleased with the performance of the ORBI system in my environment. There are still issues in my system too but nowhere near as many as other folks continue to report. Good luck!