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No Ability to Daisy Chain AX6000 (two satellites)
Just bought the 3 pack (1 AX6000 router and 2 satellites), and as far as I can tell there is NO ability to enable daisy chain topology.
Here is the old (original orbi) settings for adanced wireless WITH daisy chain option.
Here is the new (AX6000 orbi) settings for advanced wireless with NO daisy chain option.
The sats are in a completely linear setup -- router is in living room, sat 1 is in office (exactly in the middle of router and sat 2), and sat 2 is in the shed. I literally just swapped in the AX6000 units for where each router and sat was, and the orbi app shows the two sats as being connected to the router (dotted line to them) as opposed to before where it was router --- sat 1 --- sat 2.
Can anbody else confirm that there is NO daisy chain topology for the AX6000 series. I'm confounded, as I'm getting worse speeds by sat 2 because it's traversing 2x the distance now to the router rather than connecting to sat 1.
EDIT: Furthermore, I can see in the old original orbi setup sat 2 was connected to sat 1 via 5Ghz (daisy chain) whereas now sat 2 is connecting at 2.4Ghz (again 2x the distance) to router. The only explanation I have for this is that there is no daisy chain option, as logic would dictate that sat 1 and 2 should be bonded at 5Ghz since they are not that far apart (but sat 2 is far enough from the router such that it would want to connect at 2.4Ghz if it can't daisy chain). FYI, using all latest firmware (in the screenshots above, the firmware versions are in the upper-right corner).
I bought the RBK853 unit from Netgear -- if there is no way to daisy chain, this thing's going back. I didn't pay 2x the price to get half the speed at my second satellite compared with my old Orbi.
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What is the distance between the RBSs? 30 feet is recommended in between RBR and RBS/RBS to begin with depending upon building materials when wirelessly connected. https://kb.netgear.com/000036466/How-far-should-I-place-my-Orbi-satellite-from-my-Orbi-router
What you may try is that you may need to turn ON the RBS in sequencial order to get them to connect to the other RBS.
Rogelio1 wrote:Just bought the 3 pack (1 AX6000 router and 2 satellites), and as far as I can tell there is NO ability to enable daisy chain topology.
Here is the old (original orbi) settings for adanced wireless WITH daisy chain option.
Here is the new (AX6000 orbi) settings for advanced wireless with NO daisy chain option.
The sats are in a completely linear setup -- router is in living room, sat 1 is in office (exactly in the middle of router and sat 2), and sat 2 is in the shed. I literally just swapped in the AX6000 units for where each router and sat was, and the orbi app shows the two sats as being connected to the router (dotted line to them) as opposed to before where it was router --- sat 1 --- sat 2.
Can anbody else confirm that there is NO daisy chain topology for the AX6000 series. I'm confounded, as I'm getting worse speeds by sat 2 because it's traversing 2x the distance now to the router rather than connecting to sat 1.
EDIT: Furthermore, I can see in the old original orbi setup sat 2 was connected to sat 1 via 5Ghz (daisy chain) whereas now sat 2 is connecting at 2.4Ghz (again 2x the distance) to router. The only explanation I have for this is that there is no daisy chain option, as logic would dictate that sat 1 and 2 should be bonded at 5Ghz since they are not that far apart (but sat 2 is far enough from the router such that it would want to connect at 2.4Ghz if it can't daisy chain). FYI, using all latest firmware (in the screenshots above, the firmware versions are in the upper-right corner).
I bought the RBK853 unit from Netgear -- if there is no way to daisy chain, this thing's going back. I didn't pay 2x the price to get half the speed at my second satellite compared with my old Orbi.
- Disconnecting and turning on sequentially did not work.
Sat 1 is about 50 feet from router (router is in living room and sat 1 is down the hallway in an office).
Sat 2 is in a she-shed/cabana that is an additional 60 feet from sat 1 (so the distance traverses through the stucco wall of the main house) or about 110 feet from the router (as I mentioned it’s a strict linear distance).
The logic it’s using to connect at 2.4Ghz to the main router for sat 2 is faulty. The link connection is worse than the prior old Orbi as evidenced by my speed tests being half of what they were sitting beside sat 2.
I get Netgear trying to idiotproof the settings and have it dictate how it best thinks it should connect — but the logic is just plain wrong on their AX6000 Orbi unit for a second sat. There needs to be a satellite Advanced config page to manually set how it’s connected (I.e. daisy chain to first sat) and at what frequency.What happens if you try to swap RBS positions?
Currently in the Orbi AX the best possible topology is automatically selected by the system.
The best connection path should be calculated taking into account all the available hops and their actual transfer speeds.
So a daisy chain is selected if the system considers this the best available path (this happened to me too when testing the best satellite locations).
Then there is no need to be able to explicitly enable this feature.
Indeed the problem might be to know why the AX system now did not select a daisy chain topology...
