Obi mesh connection

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Pylona wrote:

I want to know how the Orbi communicates between the main box and the satellites.  is the mesh a separate ring with some sort of proprietary protocol - ie it does not use the main BW that the users will acess for connectivity?

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hi

at the present time the sats communicate back to the router only so the way its works is in a star type topology 

the sat and router communicate with a dedicated 5 gig 1733M wifi connection 

so think of the dedicated 5 gig backhaul a bit like an ethernet connection between the two

both orbi router and sat transmit both a 2.4 gig 400M and a 5 gig 867M connection for the clients using a single ssid for all transmissions

mesh type topology is not currently supported but is suggested it may in future firmware , however testing of other mesh systems suggest greater losses than the current star topology of the orbi system so if it does change i hope they make it a choice of star or mesh 

pete