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Nighthawk or Orbi
Hi all, Looking for advice on a Network setup for our new summer home. The house is 3 levels, approximately 1,200 SF each level. First floor has kitchen, living room, 3 bedrooms. Second floor...
I have Orbi in a 3-level ~2,900 SF house. With the router on the top floor and one satellite on ground floor I get good coverage throughout the house. By good, I mean at least 35 Mbps speetest on an iPhone. I can also obtain 10 Mbps throughput on my laptop from outside, 500' away from the house.
I have no nearby neighbors, so no interfering WiFI APs from my neighbors.
Orbi is in AP mode behind a third-party router.
Orbi works great. If I had Ethernet throughout the house I probably would have installed wired APs though.
Any recommendations on routers/APs?
I think Orbi should work very well for you. You could start with the base unit on the middle floor and one satellite on the top floor. Then you could add a second satellite on the bottom floor, if you needed it. You can also move the satellites easily if you need to adjust coverage.
As far as AP recommendations, I also have a second site with Ubiquiti APs. These work very well and provide a lot of information and configurability. Unless you buy the new expensive HD models, the single client throughput is less than Orbi though.
I'm not sure I can recommend a router. The ones I have experience with are either expensive and/or difficult to configure.