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Question about distance and RBK 50
I have the latest firmware for the orbi and using Widows 10 Home. I love my Orbi. It has done what they claim it does. It solved all my wifi extender problems. This is my situation and I am hopi...
30 feet is recommended in between RBR and RBS to begin with depending upon building materials when wirelessly connected. https://kb.netgear.com/000036466/How-far-should-I-place-my-Orbi-satellite-from-my-Orbi-router
What channels are you using? Auto? Try setting manual channel 1, 6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz and any unused channel on 5Ghz.
Any Wifi Neighbors near by? If so, how many?
Try enabling Beamforming and MIMO(MIMO may or maynot be needed) and WMM. Under Advanced Tab/Advanced Settings/Wireless Settings
Try disabling the following and see:
Armor, Circle, Daisy Chain, Fast Roaming, IPv6 and Set 20/40Mhz Coexistence to 40Mhz only.
Has a factory reset and setup from scratch been performed since last FW update?
https://kb.netgear.com/31486/How-do-I-reset-my-Orbi-system-to-factory-default-settings
Everything you said to do was pretty much already done when I got into the property boxes to change them.
I changed my DNS server to comodo and pages render instantly on my hard wired PC. I have never seen speed like that
before in my tech backward state of La. In order to get more distance I need to go to 2 G speed instead of 5G and see how that works.