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RBR850/RBS850/RBS850 issues
Is there anyway to force the backhaul through another Satellite all the time? I have a Router in the basement, wired to a Satellite on the top floor in a window facing my Shop with Line of Site to a...
House is 3000' at the bottom of the hill, 300' from the house to the Shop window, shop is metal, then 100' of Cat6 to a satellite in the back yard on a 20' pole. The last satellite can not see anything without the wire to the shop satellite.
Firmware V7.2.6.31_5.0.24
There is a good 200' of dirt between the router and the shop... no idea why it keeps switching to it.
Try lowering the power to 25% and see.
What is the distances between the RBR and the 1st RBS closest to the house?
Has a power cycle OFF for 1 minute then back ON or factory reset been performed since v.31 was applied?
Ya thats quite a ways in between.
kildren wrote:
House is 3000' at the bottom of the hill, 300' from the house to the Shop window, shop is metal, then 100' of Cat6 to a satellite in the back yard on a 20' pole. The last satellite can not see anything without the wire to the shop satellite.
Firmware V7.2.6.31_5.0.24
There is a good 200' of dirt between the router and the shop... no idea why it keeps switching to it.
Well I moved the router to the 3rd floor , and the satellite to the basement. Everything is showing good strength now and so far has stayed stable. I can connect to all 3 satellites via their IPs really fast now, before it was slow to respond, figured that was how it updated, now I see I was wrong..
Good thing I ran 2 CAT6 up to the 3rd floor...
Check back with us in 3 days to let us know how it does.
Ya, basements are not good places for the main RBR.
Hope it keeps working good for you...
Overall it worked better, but now I think I'm overloading the RBR850 /w satellites with around 220 Wireless and 90 wired Nodes. Moved DHCP to a server, set my Subnet to 255.255.254.0. Was still having issues with devices randomly dropping, so added a second RBR850 in AP mode and moved half of the Wireless devices to its new SSID.
It all was working great for 2 weeks, then suddenly my bandwidth through out my network dropped to less the 1 mbps, and when I'd look at the 2 routers, the satellites were bouncing between the 2, and the AP router was showing up as a Satellite on the main RBR.
Is there any way to disable the Wired and Wireless Backhaul on the AP router?
Most of my nodes are Wireless Pot lights, main lights in the house, and shop, and a bunch of wireless Yard lights, and christmass lights permently mounted.