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How to select best orbi devices position
Hi need some feedback on how to best place all three orbis for better performance. My orbi is the RBK43 I am using them in my summer place in Mexico so the first thing is that house construction ...
Zig zagging them like that should work but house and wall construction can affect things. You'll have to play around with the exact placement.
I've moved mine around a few times. One of the positions I had tried seemed optimal until I realized the refrigerator was between it and one of my streaming boxes and causing poor performance even though the signal strength was fine. I'm using a RBK-50 with the router on the 1st level and the satellite on the 3rd. It did not work as well with the satellite on the 2nd level as it was too close to the router.
Hi and many thanks to those that were kind to support me on this issue.
This is the update, after moving arround the 2 satelites, the best place of the second floor gave me 150 mps speeds, and the other in the first floor gave me between 100 and 140 Mbps tops.
Now it happend a strange thing, I have not move those from their place and just about a few minutes ago, the one of the second floor told me in the obi app that the signal was not to good (amber circle) while the one on the first floor was all green. I then entered via chrome to the admin of the orbi and it says poor signal as well.
I really do not understand what is happening, I do not know if that can be a deffect from the satelites.
Thanks againg for you kind support.