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ksaheta
Aspirant
Oct 04, 2020

RBR50 Orbi Wifi Wifi Channel selection dropping upload

We installed Netgear ORBI RBR50 Wifi Mesh system (1 base, 1 satellite) in our home a few months ago.   We have a 1Gigabit/second Google Fiber Internet connection.   Most apps (movies, streaming, ...
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ksaheta
Aspirant
Oct 07, 2020

Thanks! 

I have confimed no ports are blocked.

 

How do I minimize or avoid channel interference ?

 

Thanks

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Mstrbig
Master
Oct 07, 2020
ksaheta wrote:

Thanks! 

I have confimed no ports are blocked.

 

How do I minimize or avoid channel interference ?

 

Thanks

You can run a program like NetSpot to check what channels neighbors are on and choose a different channel. 2.4Ghz is important as it will get the most interference. I found my channel 1 was less used, so I switched to it. 5Ghz has less coverage area, so you can choose pretty much any channel. I chose 48. 

Also check these settings for optimum performance:

Disable Circle, Armor, Daisy Chaining, Fast Roaming, IPv6 and uncheck 20/40Mhz Coexistence.
Enable WMM, Implicit BeamForming, Mu-MIMO
Set Short preamble mode. Save settings, reboot Orbi.