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Orbi RBR 750 very unstable connections with things connected through satellite
I started noticing that i was getting the correct ping speeds in some parts of the apartment and horrible in others. My apartment is about 1600 sq ft with drywall, and I use one satellite to go along...
Try setting manual channel 1 on 2.4Ghz and 40 channel on 5Ghz.
Does this happen with the RBS turned OFF?
Also try turning down the power output of the RBRs wifi radios from 100% to 50% and see if this changes anything. Under Advanced Tab/Advanced Settings/Wireless Settings
Yes, the default connection between RBR750 router and RBS750 satellite is a 5GHz WiFi radio link. WiFi is really sensitive to distance and obstacles that the signal passes through, especially metal and very dense materials such as brick and concrete. Often, air conditioning duct work is hidden inside walls. (I once encountered a brick chimney inside a house that "cast a WiFi shadow" and made WiFi connections unreliable.)
Because WiFi units are portable, it is often a good idea to move them around a bit to see if performance changes with position.
What device(s) are being used to measure performance?
Aside from the Speed Test report, what are the symptoms of horrible performance?
I use speedtest for testing. As far as the bad performance anything that is connected to my router has excellent and consistent download, upload and ping speeds. While the satellite always lost some download and upload speeds it was always consistent and the pings were low. Now i get very high and fluctuating ping speeds and the downloads and uploads are super volatile. Sometimes speedtest will say there is no connection and streaming can be a slog. This has all happened within the last week to ten days and have tried everything i know