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Seamless Roaming Orbi
So far impressed with the orbi system. Satellite firmware update was glitchy using Chrome, but worked fine in IE. I did update manually. Seamless roaming appears to be happening. You ca...
just to clear something up the orbi is NOT seamless roaming , it has band steering and ap steering but thats not technically seamless roaming
the client device stiull disconnects from one transmission to then move to another
real seamless roaming does not disconnect at all
What is beamforming exactly? What are the benefits of enabling or disabling it in Orbi?
Re: zero handoff I've also used multiple Open-Mesh APs prior to Orbi and found fewer Orbi units actually handoff more reliable than OM. This was a pleasant surprise.
Re: zero handoff I've also used multiple Open-Mesh APs prior to Orbi and found fewer Orbi units actually handoff more reliable than OM. This was a pleasant surprise.
A very good brefing on what Beamforming is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamforming
Due to "stickyness" in some wireless devices Netgear left Beamforming turned off in the Orbi. I found that older devices have more issuess jumping from satellite to satellite when turned on. I have a 3 year old Android tablet that refuses to release from the Orbi on the far end of my house when beamforming is turned on. Turned beamforming off and the tablet now moves from sat to sat.