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How to tell signal strength between router and satellite? (other than lights)
Hi, besides looking at the color of the light on the top of the Orbi, is there something in the web admin app which will show me how strong the signal is between the router and the satellite? I am g...
There is one way but it's not ideal.
You log into each Satellite's Status page.
It's shows color indicators of the signal going from the Router to the Satellite divided between 2.4Ghz (Top) and 5Ghz (Bottom).
2.4Ghz and 5Ghz are shown separately and the color indicator will change differently for each band.
These colors will also show on the Satellite but not by WIFI BAND and not really problem specific.
It does show a REAL TIME check but you have to manually refresh to see changes.
BLUE mean best signal.
AMBER means GOOD to FAIR.
MAGENTA means POOR or NONE
GRAY means No connection.
You can use this to find better Satellite locations and improve your overall backhaul which is the Orbi's primary feature.
NOTE to Netgear: PLEASE expose this signal reading as a chart.
It would make placement of Satellites so much easier which is the critical part of any MESH or MESH LIKE network.
- As orbi using another 5GHZ as backhaul, why it still shows the signal strenth of recived 2.4G and 5G, it should not receive 2.5G and 5G and amplify it if it is mesh network. quite confused.
If you enalbe telnet on the router (http://routerip/debug.htm) you can run satelliteinfo wifi and it will show you stats like the following, the backhaul phytxrate and backhaul phyrxrate are what you want to look at.
root@RBR50:/# satelliteinfo wifi
[
{
"mac address" : "9C:3D:CF:15:1D:5D",
"hop" : "1",
"bridge mac" : "9C:3D:CF:15:1D:5D",
"backhaul conntype" : "5GHz",
"backhaul rssi" : "-72",
"backhaul macaddress" : "",
"backhaul phytxrate" : "585",
"backhaul phyrxrate" : "520",
"backhaul parentmac" : "00:00:00:00:00:00"
},
{
"mac address" : "8C:3B:AD:13:1B:C9",
"hop" : "0",
"bridge mac" : "",
"backhaul conntype" : "wired",
"backhaul rssi" : "-97",
"backhaul macaddress" : "8C:3B:AD:13:1B:C9",
"backhaul phytxrate" : "0",
"backhaul phyrxrate" : "0",
"backhaul parentmac" : "8C:3B:AD:13:0C:56"
},
{
"mac address" : "B0:B9:8A:6A:5E:33",
"hop" : "0",
"bridge mac" : "",
"backhaul conntype" : "wired",
"backhaul rssi" : "-97",
"backhaul macaddress" : "B0:B9:8A:6A:5E:33",
"backhaul phytxrate" : "0",
"backhaul phyrxrate" : "0",
"backhaul parentmac" : "00:00:00:00:00:00"
}
]
I have Telnet the Router and below is the result. still dont understand why Orbi use special 5GHZ as backhaul but on the satellite page shows 5GHZ amplifing weakly.
