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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 wouldn't necessarily disagree with with what peteytesting says, but the fact is Orbi works very well in my 3-level home. And as I said, I can get good throughput outside, from 500' away from the home, which is phenomenal. I could never do that with my previous WiFi routers. The backhaul has no problem giving good throughput through one level of flooring, which is why I said to put the Orbi "router" on the middle floor.
The reason I didn't think wired APs are necessarily the obvious best solution here is because the OP made it sound like he had a SINGLE ethernet drop on each floor. If he had drops in every room, then yes go with wired APs for sure. However, with only one drop per floor, it may be difficult to get full coverage of the 1,200 SF on each floor, depending on where the drops are.
Just factors to consider.
the connectivity of the sats to the main router depends on what material those floors are made of and thats prob the kicker here , if its all wood it might be fine , if its all concrete it may be impossible to get the backhaul signal to connect
having ethernet on each floor would negate the issue of the concrete and this give a better overall throughput and coverage