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Do more satellites add capacity for more connected devices?
According to the knowledge base artical below, an orbi system has a maximum capacity of 250 connected devices. https://kb.netgear.com/31097/How-many-devices-can-my-Orbi-system-support My questio...
You should only have the satellites you need to cover the area you want to. Too many satellites will create problems e.g. clients switching between the router and satellites too frequently.
To send data wirelessly between the router and satellite(s) the dedicated radio is used, so for LAN only traffic the backhaul bandwidth would be a limiting factor. As you increase the number of satellites you could well start to decrease the backhaul performance.
If you’re pushing the limits of the 250 users guide we gave you’re probably getting to the point where our wired Prosafe Access Points with wireless controllers would be worth considering. You can set things up with some failover that way so that hardware failure or crashing hopefully causes minimal inconvenience. If a hundred employees can’t work because the Wi-Fi is down this would become very costly quite quickly.