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Satellites for RBE771 connect but don't work
I have been fighting this problem for weeks. I have an Orbi 97 system RBE771 with 2 satellites. The computer connected directly to the Router via WiFi has great speed and the router itself te...
Okay Test: Satellite 2 directly connected to Router via Ethernet about 25-30 feet away.
Laptop connected to:
- Ethernet to Satelite: 18 Mbps
- Wifi to RBS: 7.5 Mbps
- Turned OFF RBS and then connected
- Ethernet directly to RBR: 84 Mbps
- Wifi to RBR: 54 Mbps
So even though close and wired, the speed drop using a satellite is very bad. I had the laptop in the same location for all tests. And when the RBS was 50 feet away and only connected via WIFI Mesh to the RBR, if I connected to the RBS, my laptop speed dropped to stall speed.
I changed a cable in the distant RBR in the office as got 8Mbps via Ethernet So definitely a slowdown due to distance, but I used to get 50Mbps.
This Wfi 7 system was supposed to be an upgrade from my ORBI50 but while the router is great, the satellite system is much worse. It seems like too much congestion between the router and its satellites.
Any software setting that could cause this obstacle?
Okay Test: Satellite 2 directly connected to Router via Ethernet about 25-30 feet away.
Laptop connected to:
Ethernet to Satelite: 18 Mbps
Wifi to RBS: 7.5 Mbps
Turned OFF RBS and then connected
Ethernet directly to RBR: 84 Mbps
Wifi to RBR: 54 Mbps
So even though close and wired, the speed drop using a satellite is very bad.
What happens if you use the wireless backhaul to connect Satellite 2 to the RBR?
One possibility is that the ethernet backhaul is negotiating 2.5 gbps, but the cable actually can't carry that reliably.
An alternative test (if you have a gigabit switch you aren't using) is to put the switch between the satellite and the RBR, and see if that makes any difference.
I ran into a similar performance issue with my own 870 system - the WAN cable was 5e, and it was getting packet loss when the connection negotiated to 2.5 gbps. It wasn't that easy to swap the cable, so instead I put a gigabit switch on the path. That improved the performance.