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How far away can you place the Orbi Satellite?
I have a detached garage with a guest apartment above. It sits about 80 feet from my existing Comcast modem and Apple router in my 3500 SF house. I have tried two Netgear extenders with poor results. I want to be able to use a laptop, mobile devices, and Amazon Firestick in detached apartment.
Will Orbi work for this application?
If so, how far away can I place the satellite from the base?
Will I need a second satellite for the house?
Hello Markinportland
Each unit can cover up to 2000 sq feet this will vary based on your environment. Also later on when we are selling individual satellites you can have up to 3 satellites with the one base.
DarrenM
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Your sitiation is one exsample y I keep pounding Netgear as to the need of Eithernet backhaul, I have the same situation here and I don't think the 5HGz WiFi link is going to be strong enough to be any use. Come on Netgear give us Eithernet backhaul support on the sattlelights. The need for this support is only going to get wors before it gets better.
Hello Markinportland
Each unit can cover up to 2000 sq feet this will vary based on your environment. Also later on when we are selling individual satellites you can have up to 3 satellites with the one base.
DarrenM
Hi Darren,
Thanks for the info. I still really need to know if there is a max distance that you can place the satellite? Has NetGear tested this?
Markinportland wrote:Hi Darren,
Thanks for the info. I still really need to know if there is a max distance that you can place the satellite? Has NetGear tested this?
hi
although there is no way to tell exactly and every situation is different because of the enviornment and construction materials , i di some testing by starting out with the router and sat close and ran some speed tests by transferring a file from one to the other to get a base line max speed and connection
i then moved the sat back 5 meters at a time and tested again , once i got pas 10 meters and a few walls away the throughput across the 5 gig backbone was quite effected and the backbone actually changed to 2.4 gig instead which worked well but at a lower speed
if your garage is made is steel or clad in colorbond type naterial then forget it anyway
so i reacon about 40 to 50 feet apart or there abouts is about the max distance you would wantbefore they start to degrade in signal strength for the back bone
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have you considered powerline adapters to get the signal from the house to the garage
pete
