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elcabong
Jul 19, 2019Aspirant
Long distance expansion of system
I have the Orbi RBR50 router with satellite and have no issues with the current system. The satellite unit that came with the base router is at the far East end of our home and serves that area well....
- Jul 20, 2019
If you decide to get the second system and wire to the first, make sure you set it for AP mode so that it will act as an extension of the first.
elcabong
Jul 20, 2019Aspirant
Thanks for the quick and thourough response.
I had read some of the other posts on this topic (using a second router in the "mesh") and thought that it might work for my needs.
The guest house is about 900 square feet under roof but only 600 square feet is "indoors". The balance is a covered area open on 2 sides.
The pool area is about 3,000 square feet in size.
The cat 5 ends at the guest house and travels the 120 feet from that structure to the router in the house.
If there was a way to put a satellite on a wired connection it would probably solve the handoff situation. But I'm not sure the "handoff" would work in that situation.
As it stands, the signal is acceptable up to the guest house which is about midpoint of the pool's length. By the time you get to the end of the pool or start to enter the guest house, the signal drops out. The main reason for the whole issue is to get service into the guest house. I'm not as concerned about wireless around the pool area but I think you are right. The router wired in the pool house would probably handle the pool area by itself.
I think I'm going to try it.
Thanks Again.
NomadTech
Jul 20, 2019Guide
If you decide to get the second system and wire to the first, make sure you set it for AP mode so that it will act as an extension of the first.