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I am building a 2,000 sqft ranch style house with a 1,600 sqft workshop. The workshop is about 100 feet away from the house. I want one mesh network to serve both. I'm thinking of getting the RB53...
100ft distance is a bit far away to have an Mesh system to provide between each building that far away. Would be probloematic when wireless. You would be best served by having a main host router or the main orbi system with 1 satellite at the main builting, you may not even need a Satelilite here. Then run a CAT6 LAN cable buried out to the work shop building and place a wireless AP device there.
FWIWwrote:I am building a 2,000 sqft ranch style house with a 1,600 sqft workshop. The workshop is about 100 feet away from the house. I want one mesh network to serve both. I'm thinking of getting the RB53 and placing the base unit at one end of the house, a satellite at the other end, then putting the 3rd satellite in the center of the workshop. I'd connect the workshop unit to the base with Cat-6 cable using the backhaul feature.
does this make sense? Is there a better way?
FWIWwrote:I am building a 2,000 sqft ranch style house with a 1,600 sqft workshop. The workshop is about 100 feet away from the house. I want one mesh network to serve both. I'm thinking of getting the RB53 and placing the base unit at one end of the house, a satellite at the other end, then putting the 3rd satellite in the center of the workshop. I'd connect the workshop unit to the base with Cat-6 cable using the backhaul feature.
does this make sense? Is there a better way?
I would strongly stay way from orbi since you will rely a backhaul connection (something that hasn't worked correclty for 2 months so it has been pulled from the auto update)