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Orbi RBK53 questions
I am in the market to buy a “mesh” system and all the reviews are pointing me towards Orbi. I had a couple of questions and hope to get them sorted before I pull the trigger. My home is about 1600s...
1. Because my Nighthawk is struggle city to get more than 300mbps from FiOS (and it’s definitely the router), will Orbi have the same issues for devices directly plugged in?
LAN devices should speed test capable up to 900Mb. Wireless will max out at around 400-500Mb based on device support and design.
2. Even though 3 units for 1600sq is overkill, my thought on the 3rd unit is for the garage, to help broadcast to the outside and that general area of the house. I hope to daisy chain them all together via wire. Is this a concern with too many units?
1600sq ft you really only need a base router and maybe one satellite for the garage. If your going to keep the same center placement of the router. I have a 5000sq ft home and use juse the base router at one end up stairs and 1 satellite at the other end of the house with 40 feet inbetween. I get great coverage and performance. You may just want to place a satellite in the garage if you our there alot.
3. The fact that my main unit is close to center point, should a second unit be upstairs/basement in a corner? Or upstairs/basement center? I understand it’s a circular range, but is it a true sphere range or is the height a bigger drop off compared to left/right?
30 feet is recommended in between them to begin with depending upon building materials.
4. I don’t care about QOS or parental controls (future maybe), but I know these features destroy the Nighthawks performance. Would this be the same case?
Theres same features, however as long as you don't enable them or use them, you'll be fine.
5. Does anyone have this with gigabit and see any issues getting gigabit speeds through the router? My house is wired cat6.
QOS or parental controls and Traffic Meter, as long as you don't enable them or use them, you'll be fine.
Thanks FURRYe38. So even though a 3 setup would be overkill, would it cause issues? I only ask because its about $330 for RBK50, but I can get the RBK53 for $350. Seems silly to not get the 3.
donalcombright wrote:
Thanks FURRYe38. So even though a 3 setup would be overkill, would it cause issues? I only ask because its about $330 for RBK50, but I can get the RBK53 for $350. Seems silly to not get the 3.
Costco has 90 day return period to see if you like it. Once 90 days are up, sell extra satellite from RBK53 on eBay!
Yeah I got mine at Costco for $350, and someone paid me $225 for my extra RBS50 Sat, as that is what they run for on Amazon. Net result for me was a very good deal, for what I kept.
Also I have Circle and don't see a major performance issue. I have the new beta firmware 2.2.0.66 (for the last day) and I do see a potential DNS resolution issue that could be related, but it's unproven so far and for sure not proven to be an issue directly related to Circle. I am doing more testing before I even say it's a real problem. Having said that, I ran Circle on the current, standard firmware, for a couple months and had zero issues with it and never noticed a performance problem.
I have symetric gigabit fiber and get full speeds when directly connected (wires) to the ONT and use wired clients. There is a very slight processing hit but this is to be expected with a device such as this. 975/1000 is fine by me.
