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Jman27
Oct 30, 2018Aspirant
Satellite placement help
I have a 3 story house and my RBR serves as my router and must be on the second floor at the very front of my house. Right now I have the satellite upstairs at the other end of the house. All of my de...
Jman27
Oct 30, 2018Aspirant
Thanks for your help! I have 3 other neighbors WiFi options in my house so I gave my 2.5 and 5 ghz their own channels like you suggested. I also read in other posts that I should turn down the power on my 2.5 ghz and I enabled fast roaming, all issues are now gone. All the devices that should be on 5ghz are and the devices requiring 2.4 ghz are on that and when I go upstairs my phone hooks up to the 5 ghz on the sat. In the front of my basement I connect to the router and in the back to the sat all the way on the 3rd floor directly above! I hope this lasts because I’m getting my full internet speed plus some everywhere in my house!
tucsontico
Nov 01, 2018Virtuoso
Good news and good for you! Most of the issues you read about on this website are related to interference from neaby WiFi sources (sometimes even the Sonos-type speakers cause issues). Here's a link to an article that explains the problems with WiFi interference quite nicely: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/802-eleventy-what-a-deep-dive-into-why-wi-fi-kind-of-sucks/2/ :smileyhappy: