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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.
When you disabled Daisy Chain, is the check mark removed from the box or check in the box?
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...
The checkbox is unchecked which I believe to be disabled. Since it is enabled by default (what i read online at least), it was checked to begin with and I unchecked it. I did see someone mention that with the latest firmware it might be reversed but that's not what it appears to be for me.