Before you buy the orbi system - what you need to know performance and feature wise

No, sorry, to be unclear just was trying to be brief. DirecTV when streaming will check to see if all the devices doing streaming are on the same subnet as the receiver. If not then they assume you are not at your home network and are streaming outside your home and they will refuse to stream the content. This may be changing as they have more competition in the streaming market now, but in general their unrestricted streaming infrastructure is designed for in home use and after much frustration trying to deal with mysterious messages from Directv stating that the "device must be on the same network as the receiver"  when everything in fact was on the same network, I figured out that all wired and wireless devices must be on the same subnet as well as conform to some kind of bizarre and misguided latency algorithm that they use that can yield differing results between wired and wireless devices. My receivers are wired and of course most of the streaming devices are wireless. Not to mention that I want to look at one router client list to view all the devices on the network , bandwidth consumption, firewall rules, etc except for the those bridged in with VPN (different topic).  In my case I have a multi-WAN router with cable, DSL, and 3G backup that I use for ISP service from three different providers. This router provides DNS and DHCP services for the entire network, including multiple uplinked switches at the access layer. It does not do any WiFi.  I have multiple wired access points for this network that I am attempting to replace with a consiolidated Orbi system to take advantage of the wireless backhaul and more aesthetic appearance of the satellites so that I have more flexibility for AP placement.  So I need everything on the network to delegate or inherit DNS and DHCP from the main router. My question was whether putting the Orbi router into AP mode actually gave it AP functionality as would be the case with most home wifi enabled routers but now I understand that the "system" is in AP mode not the router, which in AP mode is acting as a switch for wired connections and the satellite. I can also see that support for wired badkhaul will be really useful for Orbi since mine had trouble syncing with the satellite at about 30 feet line of sight so that will be a big improvement for the future to expand coverage with satellites beyond the range of the wireless backhaul. Sorry for the long expalnation and thanks everyone for the help and interest.