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Going beyond 4 Satelites with ethernet backhall
I called customer services, they said the Netgear Orbi is only guaranteed to work with a maximum of 4 satelites. They said although the router allows you to add more, if you go beyond 4 you will exper...
Bandwidth will and can be a challenge as well as interferences and noise. If you have too many wifi signals in a close proximity, noise and congestion on wifi channels will become a problem and cause disconnets and wifi instability. You don't want too many wifi signal sources too close to each other. Wireless or wire connected satellites. Also the Orbi system seems to have a distance sweet spot in regards to how close the satelllites are to the base router. 30-40feet seems to be a good starting point for these systems when they are connected wirelessly. 4-6 satellites is good for a average home. If your using these for a business, then you not get what you desire as these are for a home setting. Maybe a small office. If you needing them for a Business, then you should looking into the Orbi Pro version or some other kind of wifi system meant and built for business.
Over all the Orbi is what it is and is designed for limited configurations. Anything beyond this could be problematic and not supported.
Good Luck
Ehh…? In what regard does this relate to the topic of wanting to install more than 4 satelites via wired backhaul?
Cheers,
budy