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How i fixed my Orbi Wifi woes
I turned off my Hue lights (and bridge). My frequent disconnects between router and and satellite have ceased and my wifi conections from iOS devices have become rock solid. All i need to do now is...
The dB scale is logarithmic, so even a small difference can be significant. A difference of 3 dB is equal to 200%. The difference between -80 dB and -96 dB (i.e. 16 dB) is almost 40000%.
TheEther wrote:The dB scale is logarithmic, so even a small difference can be significant. A difference of 3 dB is equal to 200%. The difference between -80 dB and -96 dB (i.e. 16 dB) is almost 40000%.
Thanks, very helpful! What's really odd to me is that I just hooked up the old soundbar again to see if I could observe any noticeable difference in noise level, and I could not. With the soundbar off, noise levels on channel 36 would stay at -89, sometimes fluctuating to -90 or -88, and on rare occasions would monentarily spike to -80 or so (even got as high as -72 once). But throughput was still fine. As soon as a turned the soundbar on, throughput tanked badly, but there was no discernable effect on the indication of noise... behaved pretty much exactly as it did with the soundbar off. Turn the soundbar off, proper throughput is restored.
That tells me 2 things...
1) The noise indication is not necessarily a totally reliable source for troubleshooting, and
2) Something really weird seems to be going on here with the lower 5ghz channels (even with the soundbar removed, noise on these channels is subtantially higher, though throughput does not appear to be substantially affected)