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RBS50Y connecting to a weak signal
I have recently added a second RBS50Y to try and get a good signal to an outbuilding The plan was to have this connection Kitchen RBS50 (1)>Garage RBS50Y (2)> Games Room RBS50Y (3) >games room RB...
I've swapped positions of the two RBS50Y and the satellite now on the garage connects to the kitchen orbi fine. The orbi now on the games room now connects to my office which is mid-way across the front of the house whereas the previous RBS50Y connected to the kitchen orbi.
All of this is making me think that I can't connect two RBR50Y directly together.
I've put an RBS50 inside the garage and rather than connect to the RBS50Y outside the garage it is connecting to the Kitchen orbi which is further away and has an additional wall between the two devices.
Am I trying to achieve something that is beyond the RBS50Y ? Is it part of the mesh network but acts only as an access point for wifi or can it form part of a wider meshed network ?
Factory reset the RBR50 and rebuilt the network today and the issue is still there. I've dropped the power of the wifi signals and that improved the connection to the RBS50Y but connection to the orbi inside the games room is still flaky and only uses the 2.4 wifi. I've dropped the power of the 2.4 further which forced the orbi to use 5g but the signal is poor.
Looks like I need to look at an alternative manufacturer and start again
andrewsanderson wrote:
Looks like I need to look at an alternative manufacturer and start again
The problem isn't the manufacturer - the problem is the never ending dream everything has to be wireless at any price. Even if you go for a very expensive leading edge WiFi 7 Mesh system (from any vendor), you will hit the limitations of the "physical" (wireless) connectivity. No matter how many thousands of USD you are investing in technology my friend.
Consider to install a good network cabling between the points 1, 2, and 4. (I don't think you need to cover 3 this because it appears to be mostly outdoors). Try to stay below 90 or 95 meters plus some patch cords, so you remain in the 100 m max length for any copper Ethernet link. This can give you up to 10 GbE coverage on your new wired backhaul with ease, the ability to mount some PoE++ switch(es) to drive decent Wireless Access Points, or even deploy such a modern and sexy WiFi 7 Mesh system like the Orbi 970.
Thanks for the reply.
We have a wired connection currently and its route is : Around the outside of the house, under a path, through the garage, under the patio, under another path and into the games room.
My fear is that the cat5 will degrade over time and I will loose the connection. I was hoping that having the external satellites would give me a meshed connection to the building. I probably over expected the meshing to work out that the connection was stronger from the RBS50Y - as all of the simplified mesh diagrams show will happen.
I'm now thinking of connecting a point to point transmitter/receiver to the back of an orbi in the house and then taking an ethernet cable from the games room to the AP in there
CAT5 was officially only designed for up to 100Mpbs. CAT5e supported 1000Mpbs. If your running cabling outside in a un controlled environment, then it's recommended to use CAT6A STP cabling. Not UTP. STP is designed for use outside and would last longer if buried or put thru some piping.
