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Satellites disconnect
Hi I’ve had a 2 satellite Orbi system since February and for the most part I’ve had a good experience. I first had to force the 2.4g channel to 11 (least crowded) and set my sonos net channel to 6. I’...
Orbi tries to use 40 MHz channels on 2.4 GHz. Unless you have checked 20/40 MHz coexistence, the two will interfere with each other using 6 and 11. So, you'd be better off using channel 1 for Sonos and channel 11 for Orbi, or vice versa.
Thanks for the advice, but before Tuesday this week I could stream unique uncompressed streams from Deezer to 6 sonos speakers without dropouts, while the kids were watching YouTube and playing Forza. So although there might be interference it must not have caused enough lost data to be a problem. When the ORBI works it is amazing at how much data it routes without hiccups to 20 plus devices. But when a satellite drops the whole system crumbles. If there was a way to troubleshoot the signal strength, I could at least begin to troubleshoot the issue.