Next question is has anything new been purchased?
New ac system? New WiFi refrigerator? Looking for something turning on and putting out emf noise. My daughter had her base unit on a tv stand. Bad signal when someone downstairs turned the tv on.

Ok, you guys talked me down, and I didn’t put .45 caliber holes through my Orbi.

This is what I did, as a first step:
- Changed channels on both the 2.4 and 5 Ghz
- Moved base station as high as it can be, in that corner of the kitchen
- Moved satellite to within 30’ of the base station, with no big metal things between it and the base station, and also up high - it ended up in the living room

This has improved things.
- Far fewer episodes of no connection or unreasonably slow connection

Now, I’m still irritated because my iPhone doesn’t seem to switch which access point it connects to when I move around. For example, I was in the kitchen, six feet from the base station, and get 510 Mbps. When I walk to the living room, maybe 35’ from the base station but with a big refrigerator in the way, I get 50-60 Mbps, because the phone doesn’t switch to the satellite that is all of 6’ away in the living room. If I force the phone to switch to the satellite, I get 300 Mbps or so. Now I’m in my bedroom on the second floor, getting about 230 Mbps from the base station which is about 40’ away and one floor below, but nothing big and metal in the way.

I am going to move the cable entry point to place the modem and base station in the foyer nearly in the middle of the first floor, instead of at the corner of the house in the kitchen. Then I’m going to try putting the satellite on the second floor directly above the base station. If necessary I’ll get a second satellite.

I have Google mesh.

4 stations. I've rebooted it 2x in 5 years.

If things "change" its not the electronics - its outside interference. Scan channels.