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Orbi and Netgear EX6200 / EX6100 range extenders connected to security camers
I have just purchased the Orbi system. Prior to the Orbi I had two Netgear EX6200s and one EX6100 range extender. One EX6200 and the EX6100 have security cameras connected to them (Logitech alert) a...
I changed back to 'router' from 'AP' which was the only way to get all the camera feeds. I used the orbilogin to check the Ip addresses and subnet which are all 192.168.... so no problem there. To try and isolate the dropping out I disconnected all cameras and then added each one by one. It seems only one of them is causing the dropping out problem. It is the only camera connected to the EX6100. With that off the remaining cameras seem to providing consistent feeds. Any idea why one would be causing problems?
I'm not familiar with your EX6200/6100, but in general range extenders work by capturing and repeating the wireless signal of your main WiFi access point. This doubles the utilization of the RF airtime and reduces your throughput by half. This is a very serious drawback.
While Orbi is an extender of sorts, it's unique value is the fact it does not suffer this drawback, because it uses a dedicated hidden 5 GHz backhaul radio to extend the WiFi signal.
The drawback(s) of Orbi are it uses a lot of channels, and provides almost no abiity to change settings to coexist with other WiFi access points.
You might be able to get things "working" if you move your extender as far away from Orbi as possible, turn the power way down on the extender, and disable any unused bands.
However, as I wrote earlier, you should remove the extenders to get the best performance from Orbi. The two systems are not technically compatible, in that the extender will always impact the Orbi.
Ok. I have replaced the EX6100 with the Orbi satellite which is not what I wanted to do as it is now outside although undercover. It has solved the issue thus far. Ideally I would also replace the EX6200 with another Orbi satellite but funds dont allow for that at the moment. The Ex6200 is perfoming well connecting to Orbi so I'm not sure that your concerns are entirely valid but that is not to say it would be even better with an Orbi satellite.