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Best Satellite Add-ons?
I purchased the RBK50 (one router, one satellite) as it stated it should cover a 5,000 sq ft home. Mine's right at 4,500 (basement, main floor), and I have a few week spots.
I have a few optio...
I had a RBW30 wall plug sat with a RBK50 and it was hopeless - frequent disconnects. It was not a hardware fault because it persisted with two different wall plug sats (Netgear RMAed the first one). I replaced it with a RBS50 sat and it has been rock solid ever since.
It doesn’t make any sense - because you can buy kits that have the RBR50 router with 2 RBS30 wall plug sats (RBK52) and the RBW30 is supposed to work with the AC3000 router. But my experience suggests otherwise and I’m suspicious about mixing sat speeds on the same network.
I’d recommend sticking with AC3000 and get another RBS50 sat.
"As a crow flies," it's about 75' away. It's roughly 68' straight across but then up on another floor. I could move it closer to the base, but the week spot is in the other side of my house. See attached for a basic layout. Solid blue object represents base in basement; hollow blue object represents sat on main floor. Red circle represents weak signal spot.
Also side-view.
