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Orbi RBK852 Experience
Just wanted to share my experience so far with the new RBK852. I have two devices that have WiFi-6, so thought I'd take the plunge and see how things went. I went through the app installation pr...
Bandito wrote:......
I think the main reason for this is that there is only 1 satellite. It has a good connection to the router, but with only two devices, the system just doesn't have enough power for higher throughputs.....
I have it difficult to believe that this is the reason for the issue. If you have speed issues while in good distance from Orbi then there must be some other cause for the speed issues you're seeing.
If I set up the RBK53 with just one satellite in the same location that I placed the RBK852 at, namely the opposite side of the house, I get similar throughput. To get a high speed connection, you must be fairly close to the router or satellite, 10-15 ft, with little or nothing in between, like walls or ceilings. I am not really surprised that with only one satellite that throughput actually dropped for all of the WiFi-5 devices. I did expect the WiFi-6 devices to do better as they should be getting two additional streams, but for whatever reason this appears not to be the case.
As far as resetting to factory defaults after the update, I didn't do this as the only settings not already at the defaults were the SSID and the password. I only changed settings after the update.
As I said, I'll play around a bit more with the RBK852, but it doesn't appear to have any real world speed benefits in my configuration.
I would factory reset and setup from scratch and test again.
I would test with the RBR alone with the RBS turned OFF and run your speed tests with your devices connected to the RBR first.
Using WiFi Sweet Spots app on your devices, check the connection rate between the device and the RBR. What does this report for your devices?
