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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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Clarifying more... I run 3 WAPs in my house all with the same ID for a 2.4Ghz band, and a second SSID for the 5GHz band. I'll give it a whirl with one SSID across all of them.
To clarify a few issues I've had/solved between AP's and mesh:
Access Points
To test my theory, I played a game on my iPhone (clash royale). I walked from one end of the house to the other on AP's. During the game, it lost connection for about 7-10 seconds switching access points, and then it reconnected and worked fine. Also, sometimes my laptop would get 'stuck' on an access point in another part of the house and not want to switch to the closer one.
Mesh
I did the same test playing the same game and walked from one end of the house to the other (at the time, using the Orbi). The game switched units (I verified in the web console) without _ever_ losing connection in the game. Also, I do not have the problem of it getting 'stuck' on units further away.
This is very edge case and probably something nobody really cares about - but for those that do - here you go.
And to clarify, I no longer use Orbi. It's sitting on my table about to go on eBay because of no wireless backhaul. I purchased the google mesh system ($270 for 3 units) and it works flawlessly. Easy to setup on my phone and I even fixed my plex server by setting up port forwarding with just a few clicks. I had to reserve an IP address for the host and everything and it took < 2 minutes.
Orbi has all kinds of great features and it would be great if it had a wireless backhaul. But not supporting a feature that I'd say *EVERY* other competitor provides, even OLDER units provide this functionality, is a bit of a trick on their customers to get the product to market faster.
I waited plenty of time for a fix, but couldn't handle the terribly slow network any longer. I just hope they fix it for the person that buys my set of 3 on ebay and then shows up in this forum to read my post.
I meant to say no WIRED backhaul, but I couldn't figure out how to edit my post, sorry about that. :/