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MR80: Satellites become unusable after time while main router is fine?
I am trying to solve an issue with the MR80 that's being used in a roughly 2200 square foot home. The main router is located next to the modem in the basement of the house. Satellite 1 is located in ...
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StrixKuriboh wrote:
I completely forgot about this but your suggestion did end up being the solution. Removing one satellite has made the entire system much more stable. The current setup is the main router in the basement and one satellite on the other far end of the houses first floor. Everything seems to work without a hitch and I have had it running this way for months now. Thank you.
Will try updating the firmware. For the distance between satellites and router. Main router is definitley 30 ft away from the satellite in the living room. Its on the complete other side of the house. For the bedroom satellite its a maybe. It goes up theough two floors and sits in a similar position. I assumed building materials would lower the range a bit but now Im not so sure.
Any progress on this?
StrixKuriboh wrote:
Will try updating the firmware. For the distance between satellites and router. Main router is definitley 30 ft away from the satellite in the living room. Its on the complete other side of the house. For the bedroom satellite its a maybe. It goes up theough two floors and sits in a similar position. I assumed building materials would lower the range a bit but now Im not so sure.
- Updating the firmware didn't seem to have much of an effect. Im going to try disableing one of the satellites as suggested in a different reply.
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Maybe a bit closer between the MR and MS as well.
I am back. I disabled one of the satellites and saw that is was running fine. I gave it around 3-4 days which seemed to be good. I tried putting the router running again on both satellites but with one difference. The house used to have a wireless repeater for the upstairs that I forgot about. I unplugged the repeater so it couldn't mess with the satellite. The router actually ran fine for a good while but now the issue is back. It made it 11 days this time. I checked the status of the router using the web portal and it claims everything is fine. But the speeds on my satellites are once again horrible with the main router having no issues. MR is at 300mbps, MS is at 5. This is driving me nuts. I guess I'm going back to 1 satellite only again. Will provide another update and any information if necessary, feel free to ask.
Also included a nice screenshot of my pc having the good 90% late packets while my satellites are in this state.
