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Can I connect two Orbi meshes with a wired link to form one big network?
I have a house with four floors, the internet connection comes in at the bottom floor. I have a wire going to the top-but-one floor. I was thinking to have a satellite on each floor but going from b...
FrankdeBruin wrote:
I have a house with four floors, the internet connection comes in at the bottom floor. I have a wire going to the top-but-one floor. I was thinking to have a satellite on each floor but going from bottom to top this would mean three hops?
To avoid that I am considering two base with one satellite each and connect the bases through the local network to forrm big network. Would this be feasible?
Frank
you could run it that way or just run a single orbi router on its own ( running as a router ) and connect the lead that run up to that other floor and connect the other orbi router ( in ap mode ) and the sats connecting to it
etherway you still have all devices being able to see each other and the roaming might work , wont be pretty but it would work
You said, " I was thinking to have a satellite on each floor but going from bottom to top this would mean three hops?"
The Orbi is a star network with all satellites connecting directly to the base station. As such, your path will always be
Device -> Satellite -> Router -> Internet/LAN
or
Device -> Router -> Internet/LAN