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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’...
It is possible that your 2 satellites have become daisy-chained ? That feature was added in the latest firmware and enabled by default You could try disabling the daisy-chain feature in the advanced wireless setup to ensure that the connectivity from the satellite is direct to the router.
I second st-shaw's suggestion on Acrylic WiFi . I use the free version on a laptop and it works really well
Oh - I am also curious about your Sonos setup. Do you see much benefit of running the Sonos over its own dedicated wifi ? I recently changed mine so that the sonos uses the Orbi wifi and it seems to work just fine apart from the old Sonos controller no longer works but we generally use the iphone app to control it anyway... again, just curious about your experience.