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Re: I bought a package from Amazon that included the RBR750 router and the RBS350 satellites
I bought a package from Amazon that included the RBR750 router and the RBS350 satellites. It does not perform well per the reasons listed in other posts. I considered buying two RBS750 satellites but...
Although chewing on lead has a certain cachet, I agree with FURRYe38 that upgrading to the most recent firmware shown on the RBK653 Download site is probably a useful step. Who knows? It might solve the problem.
Rob6805 wrote:
It does not perform well per the reasons listed in other posts.
It might be worth describing how the performance is inadequate.
Originally, many mesh systems used a single band for both purposes and customers did not appear to be particularly upset about their performance. Because in the US and many other countries there are two 5G unlicensed frequency bands that are not contiguous (and thus have to be two separate 80MHz bands rather than a single 160MHz band, manufacturers hit on the idea of using one band for user devices and the other band for connection between mesh units.
It takes only 25Mbps to stream 4K video A Dual band mesh system can do quite a bit before maxing out capacity, and is less costly to manufacture (and thus can be sold for less).
So, what's going on?
- The RBS350's constantly go out of sync with the RBR750 router. If I pull up the settings application I can see the sync status toggle back and forth. It's done this from day one. I have a wifi camera that is closest to one of the satellites but it will not connect and use the satellite. It connects to the router and thus has a poorer connection.