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Satellite only connects with 2.4Ghz
This is very strange, I've had my Orbi system for a few months now and it worked fine until 2 days ago. I have the router and 2 satellites, one is wired and one uses the wireless backhaul. The wirele...
swap out the wired satellite for the wireless satellite and see how it goes.
swap out the wired satellite for the wireless satellite and see how it goes.
I don't know if this proves flakiness of the system, but swapping the two satellites fixed the issue. I am tempted to swap them again to see if the wireless one remains on 5Ghz, but I'm too lazy and afraid it won't work ;)
The reason I had you swap was to see if the problem followed or not. It's possible that the one RBS could be faulty and may need to be replaced...
- I swapped them again and it looks like that one satellite only connects in 2.4Ghz. I have moved it back on the wired connection and the second satellite is happily connected with 5Ghz and the Web UI shows a good connection. I'll see about replacement.