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Orbi Best Connection setup
I just bought the 3 satellite system and set it up as a wireless system as i thought was supposed to, but i live in a newer house that has ethernet jacks in every room and was wondering what the bene...
Is there any benefit to wiring the satellite to the ethernet port speed wise or does it not really matter, i bought the $499 3 sat 1 router setup for 8,000 sq feet and only have 5000 sq to cover but want any advantage i can gain
As a general rule if you have the correct cabling (cat5e or better) and a Gigabit switch to connect things up the ethernet backhaul would in theory be at least as fast and less prone to interference. I took the approach that it was a new feature perhaps with bugs and quirks and if the system worked with the wireless backhaul I would use that first and fall back to wired if I had problems.
I can stream a movie from a NAS server to a client device connected with wifi to a satellite connecting to the router over its wireless link and my Internet speedtests from that same client are the same as a speedtest on my wired gigabit network so my ISP (Fios) is the main bottleneck in my system.
- All my wiring is cat5e and I have 1GB speed as well as a gigabit switch but if I don’t need it I’ll just use wireless, just didn’t understand why everyone is so excited about Ethernet backhaul
Certainly if you have a very large house where the wireless backhaul is impossible or unreliable (too much distance, too much structure, too much wireless noise etc) then the ethernet backhaul would be a valuable option to have.
- But what do you do just run the cat5e cord that runs to kitchen (for instance) to back of Orbi router, and plug Ethernet cord into kitchen wall and Orbi satellite and it works better ???