What do I do when orbing has made my wifi worse

What is the distance between the router and satellite(s)? 30 feet is recommended in between them to begin with depending upon building materials.

What channels are you using? Auto? Try setting manual channel 1, 6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz and any unused channel on 5Ghz.
Any Wifi Neighbors near by? If so, how many?
What WPA security modes are you using?

Try enabling Beamforming and MIMO. Under Advanced Tab/Advanced Settings/Wireless Settings

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nickorrme wrote:

I recently purchases an orbi rbr50 with 1 satellite.  Setup was great everything seems ok.  But for some devices and some parts of the house wifi is much worse.

 

eg we have solar and the solar controller connects via wifi.  The device itself has a built in AP mode to do setup.  The AP mode of the controller, inside a metal box outside our house pushes a better signal to the rest of the house than the orbi does to the controller itself.

 

I can get all bars connecting to the AP of the controller all over the house.

 

The controller itself barely finds the wifi, it only gets 2 bars when I move the orbi closer to it than I'd rather have it.  And this isn't the only bad device, laptops and ipads in certain spots are also bad.

 

It's like the wifi is stronger, but about 1/4 of the size of the old crappy all in one modem/router.

 

What do I do?  I'm outside the 90 days as I've spent ages fiddling with things, but I feel like this has been a collosal waste of money.

 

Cheers,

Nick

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