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Orbi 960 Placement
I have the Orbi 960 and two Sats. My house is 3200 sq foot built in 1996 (all dry wall no concrete). I have had connectivity issues and speed issues for months. Recently, I decided to unplug both...
I know. I read that. I deleted my App and reinstalled it. So far I cant find an example but I am certain it was like this. I'll screen shot an example if I can find one. Some devices that are connected do not show link-speed now.
Most users tend to place the base unit (RBRE960) where the Internet Service Provider (ISP) device is. If you are able to relocate that device to a radically different place in the building, you are one of the "lucky few".
There is certainly no harm in reducing the Transmit Power to see what effect it has. (Not much effort required, either.)
It might be helpful to have a description of what sort of issues you were (and are) facing.
I have several Roku TVs. They often lose connection or slow down dramatically. I have Wifi cameras inside and outside -- same issue. My kids have tablets and when they move around (downstairs living room to upstars bedroom) often it just hangs until i re-boot it.
I can probably move my Router and Modem to my Garage where the cable comes into the house. This is one absolute corner -- let's say South West......North East (2 floors up) and I then put a Satellite. I need covered to extend outside for my outdoor Wifi cameras.
Will307 wrote:
My kids have tablets and when they move around (downstairs living room to upstars bedroom) often it just hangs until i re-boot it.
"it" as in:
- The tablet hangs until the user turns WiFi off and back on?
- The tablet hangs until the entire WiFi system is powered off and back on?
Mostly it recovers if I reboot the tablet -- however there have been occasions where it only works for a brief period after I reboot the tablet and I'm forced to reboot the router.
Intermittent issues are the very devil. A fundamental step in troubleshooting is to be able to replicate the problem. Things being fine for a while, and then mysteriously "going bad" only to recover later just sucks.
One area where the Orbi 'app' is superior to the Orbi web interface is displaying information about device connections. In addition to the primitive "WiFi Bars" symbol, the app also displays the "Link Rate". (The Orbi router actually has this information, the web interface simply doesn't display it. There is an Excel spreadsheet that uses the same SOAP network interface to display both the link rate and the connection strength in a spreadsheet. Alas, fewer and fewer people use Microsoft Excel these days.)
Would be interesting to find out what the app says about the connection of those Roku TVs (not Roku devices connected to TVs, correct?)
Generally speaking, centrally locating the primary router is the Holy Grail of WiFi. I would be every so happy if my ISP connection was not upstairs in the very corner of the house. I like the idea of covering the interior with the router and placing satellites on opposite sides near the walls to cover corners and outside.
Not as confident about placing the main router in the garage. If summer heat kills the router, the whole house goes dark.