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Feature Request: Orbi Satellite Ethernet Backhaul
As good as Orbi looks on paper I don't understand Y you would cut yourself so short and not support Eithernet backhaul for the satellites, I have 5 locations needing a system like this but without su...
Let me acknowledge that our customer base has been clamoring for this feature for a while, and we are trying to be responsive to their needs. To provide context on why it's taking a while to get it out, during the first quarter, the Orbi Engineering team was focused on bringing out the two new products (RBK30 & RBK40) to market. Now that it's accomplished, we're actively working on bringing this feature and a couple of other interesting, market-requested features to you.
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The main reason I could think of to provide it, is to make it user friendly.
I haven't set up the ubiquiti unifi AP's, but it looked like a lot of low level telnet sessions are required due to the UI not being very complete.
Also, ubiquiti's setup I believe requires a radius server to do roaming, and you have to do a lot of backdoor commands to get it to work.
I might take a stab at going that route and bring these orbi units back. Was just hoping to save time. Which the orbi definately does. And it works pretty good for what it does.
I'll probably go and purchase a set of unifi AC1300 AP's and set them around the house and see if I can set that up and do some wifi tests.
It looks like the Unifi 802.11AC AP's are $133 each, x 3 = $366, please cost of cloud key (83.95), plus cost of USG (108.99), for a total cost of $558.94 for enterprise grade equipment.
So the netgear stuff is cheaper, so if they could implement ethernet backhaul that would be AWESOME.
xantari wrote:
1 .I haven't set up the ubiquiti unifi AP's, but it looked like a lot of low level telnet sessions are required due to the UI not being very complete.
2. Also, ubiquiti's setup I believe requires a radius server to do roaming, and you have to do a lot of backdoor commands to get it to work.
3. I'll probably go and purchase a set of unifi AC1300 AP's and set them around the house and see if I can set that up and do some wifi tests.
4. It looks like the Unifi 802.11AC AP's are $133 each, x 3 = $366, please cost of cloud key (83.95), plus cost of USG (108.99), for a total cost of $558.94 for enterprise grade equipment.
1 . that would be wrong all ubiquiti unifi stuff runs on a gui
2. nope they usse standard wpa2 as all normal ap's do
3. you understand the 1300M unifi ap,s which is the one they call the lite version are still only 867M on 5 gig just like the orbi is
4. wouldnt really call the unifi lite stuff enterprise grade equipment.
It does run in a UI. I said the UI is not very complete. The radius issue is actually the VPN setup. They only allow VPN setup using radius servers, if you want to do user/password you have to revert to command line because their GUI is not yet capable of setting up the VPN that way. Sorry for the confusion.
The AC-PRO's are what I was looking at, they have 1300 MBPS on the 5ghz band. I'm not looking at the lite versions, those are even cheaper though. https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/
You can get an AC-PRO AP for $133 on amazon. They are water proof as well, so you can put them outside :-)