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Poor range between router and satellite - RBR50
I have an older house, circa 1950 with plaster walls. I have the RBR50 near the middle of our house. I am trying to setup the RSR50 satellite on the far side of one wall about 25 feet from the rout...
CordThomas wrote:
The status of the satellite is Good.
What tool would you recommend for a WiFi scan? I have Mac and iPhone. On the iPhone I have installed a few WiFi tools but none seem to give me a neighborhood scan.
My Mac's WiFi lists only about 6 other networks it can see. I live in a residential neighborhood without too many people living that close by.
Since you have a Mac you can use the native wifi analyser in MacOS as follows:
- Press Option key + Click on the Wi-Fi menu item in OS X
- Choose “Open Wireless Diagnostics”
- Go to the “Window” menu and choose “Scan” to immediately open the Wi-Fi Stumbler tool built into Mac OS X
- Within the Scanner tool, click on the Scan button to scan for available networks
- This will open the wireless card to detect all possible nearby wifi networks, effectively stumbling onto available wireless routers and discovering details about those networks.
CordThomas wrote:
Turning off daisy chain made a dramatic improvement to throughput. With enabled, i was getting ~40 Mbps on devices connected to the satellite. With disabled, I am getting 500-600 Mbps...
So what is the status of the Satellite connection now as you see it in the GUI? Do you have a Good connection?
I think all you need to do now is to select the correct radio channels. Please make a wifi scan and see what channels are being used and choose the 2.4 and 5 GHz channels that are not or least used. This is for the client networks.
Unfortunately, for the backhaul networks you will not be able to select the channels but you can see in the wifi scan if the channel that you use is also being used by neighboring networks.
The status of the satellite is Good.
What tool would you recommend for a WiFi scan? I have Mac and iPhone. On the iPhone I have installed a few WiFi tools but none seem to give me a neighborhood scan.
My Mac's WiFi lists only about 6 other networks it can see. I live in a residential neighborhood without too many people living that close by.
CordThomas wrote:
The status of the satellite is Good.
What tool would you recommend for a WiFi scan? I have Mac and iPhone. On the iPhone I have installed a few WiFi tools but none seem to give me a neighborhood scan.
My Mac's WiFi lists only about 6 other networks it can see. I live in a residential neighborhood without too many people living that close by.
Since you have a Mac you can use the native wifi analyser in MacOS as follows:
- Press Option key + Click on the Wi-Fi menu item in OS X
- Choose “Open Wireless Diagnostics”
- Go to the “Window” menu and choose “Scan” to immediately open the Wi-Fi Stumbler tool built into Mac OS X
- Within the Scanner tool, click on the Scan button to scan for available networks
- This will open the wireless card to detect all possible nearby wifi networks, effectively stumbling onto available wireless routers and discovering details about those networks.
Thank you for the tip - works like a charm. I've had this Mac (a recovering Windows person) for over 5 years and did not know that existed.
It doesn't look like anyone else is on our channels - 2.4 GHz is 4 and 5 GHz is 48 - all clear it would appear.
CordThomas wrote:
Thank you for the tip - works like a charm. I've had this Mac (a recovering Windows person) for over 5 years and did not know that existed.
It doesn't look like anyone else is on our channels - 2.4 GHz is 4 and 5 GHz is 48 - all clear it would appear.
Great. Then it's good to choose one of the non-overlapping 2.4 GHz channels: 1, 6 or 11 as fixed 2.4 GHz channel.
Good luck