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Before I start, please keep in mind I have absolutely zero clue what I’m doing when it comes to my internet and all this stuff so go easy. We recently moved into a new house which is a two story, dou...
paulbhande wrote:
a two story, double brick and concrete house. Our router is downstairs and we were getting no WiFi upstairs
Whatever is causing WiFi to be weak upstairs will also affect the Orbi router communicating with satellites (because that link is over WiFi). If the floor between the ground floor and the upper floor is concrete, that may be a serious problem to overcome.
Do you happen to know anyone living nearby in a similar house? It might be worth a few minutes to ask them, "How did you get WiFi to the upstairs?"
Concrete floors can be a bugger, especially when steel reinforced.
You can create a "fake" wired ethernet connection between a router and the satellites with Powerline Ethernet. This lets you use "wired backhaul" between router and satellites.
It does need a decent mains network, but it is worth a try. Can even be better than a wifi link.
Disclaimer: Just another user with time on their hands.
