Orbi RBK50 Setup with Verizon Fios

What is the distance between the router and satellite(s)? 30 feet is recommended in between RBR and RBS to begin with depending upon building materials when wirelessly connected.

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ender3424 wrote:

Just bought a Orbi RBK50 - Router + one Satellite that I am going to setup in a 3000 sq foot house. House had Verizon Fios internet with a rented verizon router on 1st floor and the house has 4 floors.

The normal setup instructions seem to assume connecting to an existing modem, but I don't see much guidance regarding approaches for setup with an ISP's Router or when the Modem is a Modem/Router Combo, so wanted to get thoughts if others have setup with Fios and what they have done.

For setup with the verizon router, I am thinking there are these options:

1) Remove the verizon router, it appears that you can run ethernet directly from the verizon ONT which essentially acts as the modem for a verizon fios setup. One thing with this is that if you have TV boxes which I do it appears you need to then connect the verizon router to a LAN port on your own router, so it can stillget an internet connection because it seems to provide internet out to the TV boxes for things like the TV Guide / Demand (via a coax back to the verizon ONT I think)


2) Leave Verizon Router in line from the ONT, set it to bridge mode, where it won't really function as a router anymore, DHCP / Wifi would be disabled, it would pass the WAN connection to the Orbi which would provide DHCP/Wifi etc. Not quite sure the advantage of this, but it may still allow the verizon router to get internet it needs for the TV setup.

3) Leave Verizon Router in line from the ONT, keep it as a router, connect Orbi to LAN port. This would be a double NAT config, which I am thinking may not be ideal? Could disable wifi on Verizon Router and then just connect wired/wifi devices to Orbi, but then everything would still be flowing through the original Network on the Verizon router.


I'm also wondering what the best placements would be to try of the two Orbi devices on the 4 floors.

There is one in wall ethernet drop run from the 1st floor closet with current verizon ONT + Router up to the 3rd floor. So I was thinking I could put Orbi router in 1st floor, use ethernet backhaul to connect to the satellite which is placed on the 3rd floor, or vice versa.

Other option would be to maybe put router on 3rd floor, and then satelite on 2nd floor via wifi backhaul. Wanted to get thoughts on how much advantage the ethernet backhaul would provide for this, and how stable the ethernet backhaul feature is I see it was added more recently in a firmware update.

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