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First Time Post for RBKE963B Owner - Inconsistent Issues 1x per Month Satellite Drops
Hello, first time on the community posting for some help. I have the RBKE963B system and am using a single satellite in my setup. My details are: Home 2-floors at 2900 sq ft. Home is in re...
Thanks FURRYe38
As mentioned, the Satellite is back haul connected over Cat 5e. It's around 35+ft away from the router regardless, but not connected to the Router over Wireless, it is Wired Cat 5e.
For the Sonos speakers I have 4 of them and unfortunately, they are all in a Wifi connected only area vs. Wired setup so my only option right now is WiFi for them. You are correct they are connected on a WiFi channel 1 currently. I have not tried changing this in anyway on the Sonos speakers.
My setup works with the exception of this 1-2 times per month Satellite drop of all WiFi connections. The Satellite wired connections continue to work. My assumption is something on the WiFi connected to the Satellite causes a congestion issue or drop.
I'll try the RBR transmit power setting and see how that goes. I'll also look at disconnecting the Sonos for a while to see if that gets me through a full month without the Satellite dropping.
CMcD2009 wrote:
Thanks FURRYe38
As mentioned, the Satellite is back haul connected over Cat 5e. It's around 35+ft away from the router regardless, but not connected to the Router over Wireless, it is Wired Cat 5e.
Is the RBS connected to the RBR using both 2.5Gb ports on the RBS and RBR? If so, you should be using CAT6A STP cable for this. 5e only officially supports 1Gb.
For the Sonos speakers I have 4 of them and unfortunately, they are all in a Wifi connected only area vs. Wired setup so my only option right now is WiFi for them. You are correct they are connected on a WiFi channel 1 currently. I have not tried changing this in anyway on the Sonos speakers.
My setup works with the exception of this 1-2 times per month Satellite drop of all WiFi connections. The Satellite wired connections continue to work. My assumption is something on the WiFi connected to the Satellite causes a congestion issue or drop.
I'll try the RBR transmit power setting and see how that goes. I'll also look at disconnecting the Sonos for a while to see if that gets me through a full month without the Satellite dropping.
FURRYe38
Understood on the 2.5Gbps connection, my Cat 5e wiring between the router and satellite is in the house walls, so that is the only hard wired option I currently have for the backhaul connections.
Would it be better to use 5Ghz Wireless Backhaul vs. Cat 5e connected backhaul?
Also, I'll note that my sattellite is in a location where it's consistently picking up more of the IoT devices vs. the router. If that would make any difference?I would try wireless back haul.
If you turn down the power this will also turn down the power on the RBS as well. May help move some items off the RBS to the RBR.
However if this was mostly working before you installed SONOs, may not be a issue though.
Follow up testing and some questions:
A couple points on the SONOS speakers, it appears in my re-starting and power off / on scenarios that the SONOS speakers and the Orbi's at various points both tried 2.4Ghz channel 1 and then Orbi had to auto switch to something else. I believe this has cause some of my initial issues with SONOS and my satellite. As long as SONOS stays on Channel 1, my setup is stable. I'll continue to monitor that.
On the disscussion of Wifi 5Ghz backhaul vs. wired backhaul over a Cat5E wired connections. In my testing with both a wired/wireless laptop connected at 802.11ax 5Ghz and testing with an IoS device.
Wired Cat 5e is sustaining at ~870Mbps with my Cat 5E wired connection (yes, I realize I'm not getting the full 1Gbps)
With my 5Ghz connection from laptop and IOS devices, I'm spiking above 600Mbps, but not getting anywhere sustained over 800Mbps.
Given this , are you saying the Orbi Mesha Wifi Backhaul would still potentially be faster (than wired Cat 5E)? Even though my clients are not getting above ~600Mbps consistently? Is there a way to see what speed the Wifi Backhaul is getting?