@va3lim wrote:
Your explanation makes sense. Thank you so much. I will order the Netgear Orbi AC3000 again and give it another try with your suggestion (RBS50 will be connected to RBR50 and try to separate them further).
Separate them as far as you can, even if the separation seems forced, like putting them right next to outer walls on opposite sides of your home. Try to get that minimum distance of 30 feet, but it's OK to have 50-70 feet between them as well. Think about it in terms of a bubble surrounding each device representing the wifi signal. If those bubbles overlap too much, you create a problem The ideal distance is the one that supports the highest speed connection between the devices while minimizing the bubble overlap. They have to overlap some to support a wireless backhaul connection, but if you are using a wired backhaul connection, then you can actually have them barely overlap at all.
I'm going to attempt to visualize this by showing different distances between the satellite (S) and router [R]. The satellite's signal is represented by parentheses below, and the router's signal by square brackets.
This would be ideal for wireless backhaul - enough bubble overlap to support a highspeed backhaul:
( S [ ) R ]
With a wired backhaul, you can separate them further, but you'd have a "dead zone" right in the middle of the two:
( S------)--[------R ]
What you had in your setup probably looked more like this:
( [ S R ) ]
Any device located between the the router and satellite in this case has two very strong signals under the same SSID, possibly causing the device to bounce between the two signals, causing streaming to be stopped and restarted over and over. This is the reason for a minimum distance.
