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Orbi outdoor satellite range versus indoor satellite range
Hi, I have a large property and I am trying to get wifi from my house out to my barn and up to my pond. I have my router in the house and 1 satellite in the pond pumphouse and 1 in the barn. My cov...
jfishburne wrote:
I have been chatting with Net Gear's Orbi support. For me they recommended that I use the outdoor rated satellite in the middle (I happen to have power in a central location) and use it as a daisy-chain between my router and my farthest satellite which is about 650 feet from my router. I was getting 1 bar of coverage between my router and that farthest satellite and they said this should fix it. I hope that helps.
I looked at your diagram. If I were you I would just go move satellite 2 to the "possible" location temporarily, and see if it improves satellite 3 (or vice versa). That should give you a clue whether it will work before you buy anything.
One issue with daisy-chaining is that the user cannot control it. The system will decide whether to daisy-chain or go direct to the router, and you can't set it one way or the other. By doing the above, you can also see if the system is stable.
jfishburne wrote:
Hi, I have a large property and I am trying to get wifi from my house out to my barn and up to my pond. I have my router in the house and 1 satellite in the pond pumphouse and 1 in the barn. My coverage/range is not quite enough to be able to use my Arlo cameras. I see that there is an outdoor rated satellite and I am trying to find out if that has a greater range than the indoor satellites. I see that the outdoor satellite has a range of 2,500 square feet, but I haven't been able to find out what the range is for a single indoor satellite.
The outdoor satellite provides better WiFi coverage over an outdoor area, because you can place it outside and eliminate walls between the satellite and the client devices. The 5 GHz transmit power is actually slightly lower than the indoor Orbi satellite. I don't think the outdoor satellite will, or is itended to, operate at a longer distance from the router.
Orbi is designed to provide coverage over a large area, not to provide a link over a long linear distance. The best thing for that is a wireless point-to-point bridge with directional antennas on each end.
Can you recommend one that will work well with the Orbi?
Wouldn't the outdoor unit with wired backhaul get it done?
Quote: Orbi is designed to provide coverage over a large area, not to provide a link over a long linear distance. The best thing for that is a wireless point-to-point bridge with directional antennas on each end.
I need to provide service to a barn about 400' away from the RBR50 or RBS50. Does anyone have a recommendation for a directional antenna that will work well with my Orbi?
How about digging in a buried LAN cable from the main build out to the barn?
Might do a web search for wifi directional antennas.
TECman51 wrote:
Quote: Orbi is designed to provide coverage over a large area, not to provide a link over a long linear distance. The best thing for that is a wireless point-to-point bridge with directional antennas on each end.
I need to provide service to a barn about 400' away from the RBR50 or RBS50. Does anyone have a recommendation for a directional antenna that will work well with my Orbi?
Your typically limited to about 330' for cat5 cabling. Would probably still work though.
TECman51 wrote:
Quote: Orbi is designed to provide coverage over a large area, not to provide a link over a long linear distance. The best thing for that is a wireless point-to-point bridge with directional antennas on each end.
I need to provide service to a barn about 400' away from the RBR50 or RBS50. Does anyone have a recommendation for a directional antenna that will work well with my Orbi?
Here are a couple options.
https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire
https://www.ubnt.com/airmax/nanobeam-ac-gen2/
I have been chatting with Net Gear's Orbi support. For me they recommended that I use the outdoor rated satellite in the middle (I happen to have power in a central location) and use it as a daisy-chain between my router and my farthest satellite which is about 650 feet from my router. I was getting 1 bar of coverage between my router and that farthest satellite and they said this should fix it. I hope that helps.
jfishburne wrote:
I have been chatting with Net Gear's Orbi support. For me they recommended that I use the outdoor rated satellite in the middle (I happen to have power in a central location) and use it as a daisy-chain between my router and my farthest satellite which is about 650 feet from my router. I was getting 1 bar of coverage between my router and that farthest satellite and they said this should fix it. I hope that helps.
I looked at your diagram. If I were you I would just go move satellite 2 to the "possible" location temporarily, and see if it improves satellite 3 (or vice versa). That should give you a clue whether it will work before you buy anything.
One issue with daisy-chaining is that the user cannot control it. The system will decide whether to daisy-chain or go direct to the router, and you can't set it one way or the other. By doing the above, you can also see if the system is stable.
