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Can 2 RBR-50 be used at the same time?
I have the RBR50 and 2x RBS50s, but my house is solid brick and my detached garage is about 100ft from the house. Wifi starts to dip a bit when I'm inside the garage working. I currently have a CAT6...
This raises a question. I have seen threads saying that connecting one satellite via ethernet while other satellites remain connected wirelessly does not work. There have been suggestion as to things to try to make it work, but I have not found anyone that says they got it working.
In theory, at least, should you be able to have, for example, 3 satellites, one with an ethernet backhaul and two with a wireless backhaul and have everything work fine?
There are two issues to address:
- "Full Signal". WiFi broadcasted by each Orbi device (router, satellite) is independent. Each contains radios which put out the same strength signal. No matter how many Orbi's are connected in a "Daisy Chain", for example, the radio signal that comes out of the end satellite is exactly as strong as the signal from the router. The correct solution to making a "seamless" WiFi network is to place an Orbi satellite at the end of the CAT6 cable in the garage.
- Connections. Yes, it works to have the backhaul signal from some satellites over WiFi and from others over ethernet cable.