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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:
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