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john-iv
Sep 27, 2016Follower
[Q] Force a device onto router or satellite
Orbi arrived today, setting it up. Once I'm in the advanced setup I'm looking at admin / attached devices and see the devices connected to the router and those connected to the satellite. A couple ...
JBMN
Sep 28, 2016Star
Following this since I have a similar issue. Need to get the wifi analyzer out to 100% ensure that the router isn't the strongest signal (even though it's much further away), but simply moving the router and satellite further away didn't solve it.
- peteytestingSep 28, 2016Hero
if using some sort of wifi analyzer like inssider etc , what you want to see is -70db or above for the device at distance and -25 to 30db for the closest device
the middle point between the router and say you should be reading about -50db for each transmission