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Hello.
I live in an old house where every wall is built with brick, meaning I have issues with wifi connectivity. I have an RBR50 plus three satellites dotted around my home. I have wifi issues in a couple of rooms furthest away from the satellites (I can be as little as 4m from the satellite and I lose access).
Are there any apps, add-ons to the Orbi app or any Netgear apps which will give me a visual representation of the strength of the wifi around my home based on the four wifi hubs?
I'm at the maximum number of supported satellites, and so i would like to know if I could be doing a better job of placement, if I should be buying another satellite, or if I should be changing tact completely, and going for another system which will allow me to put wireless access points in each room.
Any help/advice would be appreciated
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@uhhu wrote:Are there any apps, add-ons to the Orbi app or any Netgear apps which will give me a visual representation of the strength of the wifi around my home based on the four wifi hubs?
Yes, indeed, there are "apps". People with Android devices have a wider choice than those with "iThings".
I have a couple of free "Heatmap" apps on my Android tablet. (It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab A. Sort of the "Bottom of the Line") I drew up a diagram of my house, basically to scale (roughly), imported the diagram into the app (one of them makes me take a picture with the camera, the other lets me upload a file), then I walk around the house and click on the screen when I get to different places. At the end, it displays (and prints) what is called a "HeatMap" showing the relative signal strength by colors. (One has Red as the highest, the other has Red as the lowest.)
People with Apple things seem to use an app that measures bandwidth as they move around.
I also got a free heatmap program for my Windows laptop (another I got a big promotional discount).
Or, a person could walk around and with a web browser open and run http://speedtest.net or http://fast.com at various locations and record the results.
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@uhhu wrote:Are there any apps, add-ons to the Orbi app or any Netgear apps which will give me a visual representation of the strength of the wifi around my home based on the four wifi hubs?
Yes, indeed, there are "apps". People with Android devices have a wider choice than those with "iThings".
I have a couple of free "Heatmap" apps on my Android tablet. (It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab A. Sort of the "Bottom of the Line") I drew up a diagram of my house, basically to scale (roughly), imported the diagram into the app (one of them makes me take a picture with the camera, the other lets me upload a file), then I walk around the house and click on the screen when I get to different places. At the end, it displays (and prints) what is called a "HeatMap" showing the relative signal strength by colors. (One has Red as the highest, the other has Red as the lowest.)
People with Apple things seem to use an app that measures bandwidth as they move around.
I also got a free heatmap program for my Windows laptop (another I got a big promotional discount).
Or, a person could walk around and with a web browser open and run http://speedtest.net or http://fast.com at various locations and record the results.
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