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How many Orbi Satellites can I daisy chain
I have a LBR20 4g Router connected to 2 x RBS50's with a RBS50Y.
I live a in a Welsh long house, as the name suggested the hose is one room deep but long, 7 rooms long so approx 120' the core is 18C so meter think stone walls.the router is not central. coverage I the house is good.
approx 100 feet from one os the RBs50's is a ring doorbell at the bottom of the drive, connects but at the limit of the wi-fi, at the other end the RBS50Y is mounted externally to extend wifi to a horse barn and connect solar panel inverters (these are hard wired using underground cat 5 to a Tesla battery so the Tesla can track & report generation) but I need to access the Solar Edge inverters for better reporting of the 15kw of solar PV panels and for the Ring cameras we use to monitor the horses.
problem, the RBS50Y is installed at the furthest point possible from a RBS50 to connect, it has to be for the wifi to reach the barn. I really need to add another RBS50 or a RBS50Y, is this possible? I thought there was a maximum number of satellites you can connect to a router?
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I've seen people have up to 8 satellites before on here. so you can add more than the recommended but you'll start seeing performance degradation with it.
Are you hardwiring in your satellites?
With your home, the investment in either hardwiring ethernet or using moca (ethernet over coax) would be a good investment as you'll run into these issues repeatedly.
