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Please kindly help with placement of RBK50
I need your advice on where to place RBK50 router and one satelite. I live in a three story house. Evry floor is bout 1300 sf. I am able to pleace both the router and satelite centrally in t...
cellomaster wrote:I need to clarify my orifginal post. Sorry.
1. Router on floor 1, satelite on floor 2
2. Router on floor one, satelite on floor 3
3. Router on floor 3, satelite on floor 1
4. Router on floor 3, satelite on floor 2
With only one satellite, Daisy Chain can be disabled as the entire purpose of Daisy Chain is to connect a satellite through another satellite on the way to the router.
Is the need for WiFi evenly distributed across all three floors?
Yes, the need for wifi is evenly distributed across all three floors.
Ii would start with the router on the 1st floor. Carry a smartphone around the house and record the signal level at various places on each floor. My Android phone, for example, in the network settings displays the transmit and receive rates. (A more "scientific" process would be to load up a HeatMap app. There is a cool app that iPhone users rave about, but I cannot remember the name of it.). With this baseline established....
Power up the satellite in the same room as the router and verify that it "sync's". (Blue light). Then, move the satellite somewhere on the 2nd floor (not directly above the router). Plug it in a verify "Blue". Repeat the experiment with the smartphone. Both floor 2 and floor 3 should be "better".
Then, move the satellite to floor 3 and repeat. Blue? (yes: experiment. not Blue: this is not going to work.)
Reading through the posts, I see that we failed to inquire about the building construction. We are so used to "wood frame" buildings that we seldom consider things like concrete floors or concrete walls inside of buildings.
- Thanks so much for your thoughtful explanation and suggestions!
You mentioned not to put satellite directly above the router.
I was uder impression the router has to be centrally located. Yet, the satellite does not?
I also have an option to position the router on the 2nd of the three floors, yet it is at the utmost end of the house. Would that be better than placingt in the middle of the first floor?
And if so, where would you then place a satellite?I was able to connect the router on the middle floor, the 2nd floor. Yet, it is in the very front of the house.
I need to connect the staelite on the floor below it, the 1st floor.
What is the best placement of the satelite in relation to the main router?
In line? Diagonally across? It will be most likely in the middle of the 1st floor.
Any thoughts?