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Wifi speeds drop
I have a Orbi RBR50 router with a RBS20 satellite attached. I have a fiber internet provider at 200+ MPS. I get good speeds for a few days through the entire house. Every couple of days my Wifi spe...
the orbi is a bandsteering router. Meaning devices can switch from the 5ghz to the 2.4ghz. and 2.4ghz is a slow network that suffers from interference. its not going to saturate the 200mbps. That 30mbp is probably more accurate for 2.4ghz as that's what I used to hit with mine in an area with quite a few signals.
So basically I'm stating, when it drops, see if you're connected to the 2.4ghz or the 5ghz. That'll be key as the device might have switched from 5ghz, to the 2.4ghz.
Have you tried changing what channel the 2.4ghz and the 5ghz are on?
Thats what I thought was happening also but I checked the connections and they were connected to 5g. My current settings for 2.4 is Auto and the 5g is set to 48. I don’t know much about channel selection. Can you help
usually for 2.4ghz you want channels 1-6-11.
The 5ghz, just try changing to a different channel and see what happens the next time it slows down
Thank you
I set the 2.4 g to 6 and the 5g from 48 to 40. I will see what happens. Thank you very much for your expertise.
I am still getting speed drops but i have learned more. I don’t understand something. I don’t have to reboot the router to get my speed back. I did a speed check on my iphone and was getting 200+. A few hours later i checked it again and was getting 3o mps or less. All i did to get my speed back was turn off wifi on my phone and turning it back on again. Does that help explain anything.