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de8212
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Jul 20, 2018

Anyone have a RBK23?

I am looking for a Mesh solution for a new house.  I saw the RBK23 model and am intersted in it.  The house is three floors but the top floor is just a bonus room.  So, I would place one unit on each...
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de8212
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Jul 20, 2018

Thanks  FURRYe38

 

I have looked over the specs and this one exceeds what I need as far as my house.  SO, I was hoping that signal would carry at least a little bit to the garage and back yard.  And it's in my budget.  

 

Can you tell me if I would get better signal strenght (or any other advatage) by connecting each satellite with cat 5 instead of just wireless?  Would a switch (a tp link metal 8 port, not a managed switch) cause any issues with this setup?  I would most likely have the modem going into the main Orbi and then a cat5 going out of the orbi going into a switch.  Then two ports of the switch would go into separate rooms on separate floors into another switch and then into the satellites.