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Orbi - why can't we change channels on satellites?
Wireless design best practice when installing multiple access points in an area is to have non-overlapping channels. So if you have 3 APs (RBR50, 2-RBS50) in an area, for 2.4 GHz, one AP would be cha...
tln741 wrote:
........... This creates significant co-channel interference and causes my Sonos to skip songs. If I turn off the Orbi Satellite, the Sonos does not skip
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- How do you have the Sonos speakers connected? Do you use SonosNet (i.e. do you have one speaker or the Sonos Connect Bridge wired to Orbi?)? If that is the case then which channel are you using for SonosNet? In this case the Sonos speakers will be connected using an own mesh network on 2.4 or 5 GHz channel that you choose. If you choose a channel already used by Orbi then you will only have troubles.
- If you are using only Orbi wifi to connect the speakers then I don't see a reason whay you should see such a "skip" issue caused by co-channel interference. I have a mesh audio system from LG (works exactly as Sonos). I have all 10 speakers connected using wifi and they are all working perfectly.
- Please note also that wiring more than one speaker to Orbi will cause loops in the network and will cause you much headaches. If you need to wire speakers you can only wire one and only one speaker.
tln741 wrote:
........ During the probe process, how does a device NOT scan channels? If the threshold to disassociate is met, the device is looking for the BEST signal from the same SSID, not just a better signal on the same channel. It may even decide 2.4G is better than 5G.
If the device moves between APs on the same channel then it does not need to hold the ongoing tx/rx activity to camp on a nother frequency since it sees both networks on the same frequency, and this makes a big difference.
Sonos One connected wirelessly playing a playlist on my smartphone from the Sonos App.
tln741 wrote:
Sonos One connected wirelessly playing a playlist on my smartphone from the Sonos App.
- Ok, so no wired speakers or Sonos bridge at all?
- What type of other wired devices do you have connected to the Satellite? I noticed that the current Orbi software (2.2.1.210) has issues with wired devices and can be sensitive to some devices, please test -for troubleshooting purposes- to disconnect all wired devices and see if you see any improvement,
- The levels of the signals from your router and satellite show that the AP's are too close to each other or the overlapping is too big. For this situation it's recommended to reduce the power of the radio band to reduce the overlapping. Have you tried to reduce the tx power?
Android smartphone. Apple did appear to have a lockout issue. Sonos is saying the issue appears that the Sonos is losing connection to the phone over wifi.
As I mentioned above, please try changing the band's channel to another channel and/or try to reduce the transmission power of the nodes.