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MESH currenty or on roadmap
Hi all, Currently I am delaying my purchase due to the Orbi not being a MESH system, but a 'star' system. Since I am not able to place the router in the middle of my home, but I am convinced Orbi...
WouterNLD wrote:
What I understand is that a true MESH within the Orbi system is not available nor confirmed, but requested.Correct, but in most homes the star topology we use will give a better outcome than using mesh.
One Orbi router with one Orbi satellite can cover a very large area in most homes with high performance dedicated backhaul between the router and satellite.
We can't comment on what we may/may not have planned, but customer feedback (e.g. via the Idea Exchange) is important to us in helping us to decide where to focus our efforts.We have already added some popular requested features such as guest wi-fi.
Depends on your definition of Mesh. It does create a singular mesh of wifi signal very well. Only thing I do not like is the fact that I cannot use my ethernet for the backhaul. If it did that it would be perfect.