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Satellites having trouble staying connected after splitting WL and WLA SSID's on RBR50
Wanted to maximize output of my devices by ensuring that devices could connect to 2.4g or 5g. I made the change earlier by enabling telnet, and then changing the SSIDs on my Orbi system with the f...
As no one has responded for some time, I think perhaps that it would be helpful to provide more background about the situation.
- What is the problem that setting SSID's is supposed to address?
- Satellites connect to the router over a 5G "backhaul" channel that is separate from the "user facing" 2.4G and 5G channels.
Well, it just seems that after I split the SSID's, one of the satellites wouldn't stay connected. All 3 rooms on the top floor are in a row, with satellite on one end, router on the other. The other satellite is in a room directly underneath the middle room. Essentially it's an inverted triangle. No device is more than 30 feet from each other, but when I split the SSID, at least one of the devices (the one on the bottom floor) kept dropping on the network map. It seemed like their communication was interrupted. A simple SSID split shouldn't cause that, unless there is more to the architecture than I'm aware. I work cloud infrastructure IT, but not hardware.
There has not been issues since I switched it back yesterday. Some devices just don't seem to have good connection at times. Primarly, the most important would be trying to cast a Zoom meeting on a firestick from an Android Note10 in the living room. I know the device is 5g compatible, and I wanted to ensure they had high bandwidth. Again, that device would be no more than 30 feet from the router.