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Orbi Backbone Password Generation
I have a two satellite configurations which is running very well getting very consistent speeds. I noticed the option to generate passwd for the backbone on the advanced options. Quick question to the...
The router and satellite ship with a default key shared between them. If you want to change it (because you're paranoid and don't trust Netgear, or think another user has discovered the key and is snooping on backbone traffic), you can, and that's how (and why). It doesn't change performance at all, just the key, which is randomly generated.
Unless you're genuinely concerned about someone sitting outside your home with a wifi capture appliance who's going to attempt to decode the wireless traffic transiting between your satellite and router to discover your secrets, I wouldn't bother.
Rodney
Thanks very much - makes perfect sense so I will leave it like it is.
That is what I suspected but wanted to be sure that it was not completelly unprotected - given that the backbone is on the 5G band with limited range and that is already resonably protected I will leave it as it is.
In any case any important traffic is going to be encrypted in its own even if the raw traffic gets captured ...
Thanks again for the response.