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Orbi RBR50 plus Sat’s...I don’t have a Modem Please Help Setup
My Internet comes through fiber optic cable and I do not have/use a modem. My NightHawk A1900 was doing a fantastic job, but we have a large house and I wanted better coverage and decided to try the O...
Yeah....you right...The Nighthawk AC1900 is just a router. Has the OP called the ISp and asked the question there? If the The Nighthawk AC1900 is just a router, you would think it's the same setup as a Orbi. Both need a modem. So if there is NO modem in the current setup, I would ask the ISP how is that possible. Never would have bought the Orbi before I had that answer.
Yes, this is what mystifies me. There has to be "something" that converts from fiber to ethernet, and that "something" requires electrical power. Tracing things can be a chore. I know when they ran fiber to my son's house, the "fiber box" was on the side of the house toward the rear. Since his electronics were at the front, the installer went through the crawl space all the way to the front, drilled a hole, and brought the fiber up through the floor where it goes into the fiber modem. (Is that the right term, "fiber modem"?)
It might help to know the name of the ISP. Maybe we can find reference on the internet of what devices they install?
- We live in a rural area and are lucky to have as much Mbps as we do.
Our fiber optic line is also our home telephone line. All things communication run thru it. We use antennas to save $ on cable tv, so it’s just internet and home phone.
I bought the Orbi to use as a mesh system because I have a 2 story house and only had the coverage of nighthawk for my whole house WiFi.
We run a ton of WiFi and Ethernet devices and we were trying to maximize the up to 120 mbps that we pay for.
I didn’t know that the Orbi required a modem to run it.
The only other thing besides the cat 5 cable upstairs that comes out of the wall where the nighthawk resides...is the Comtrend switch that all of our Ethernet cables that run throughout the house and plug into our devices, lives...and then the Comtrend plugged into the nighthawk.
I understand that I can turn off the WiFi on the nighthawk and plug the yellow lan cable into it and then plug the Orbi yellow cable to the nighthawk like a modem.
Then, the Comtrend switch is plugged into the Orbi and the WiFi is produced from it, also.
My question is...how do I make sure that the full bandwidth of my internet is available for us to use without losing some of it with the nighthawk as a modem?? For all I know it won’t, but I don’t and I’m looking for answers.
Would it be better to put the Comtrend switch coming out of the nighthawk and then the cable to the Orbi, so the Orbi only handles the WiFi??
I’m just grasping for the right thing here 😬
I think I’ve read that I can assign ports on the nighthawk to use for the Orbi and the others will not have any way to use our bandwidth.
I just want to optimize the system to the Orbi and get all of the bandwidth I can out of this stuff!
I am doing the best I can with the knowledge I had or have learned.
Thank in advance for your help!
Have a GREAT DAY,
Nikki Davis
On Oct 11, 2019, at 12:17 PM, NETGEAR community <community@netgear.com> wrote: which company provides this service?
and is there a "name" for the service?
I want to look it up on their web site.
Thanks
- ETEX Communication
FrognJeep wrote:
ETEX CommunicationI found an "ETEX" in Easts Texas that has a fiber backbone. Cannot find anything on their web site which identifies what equipment they provide to residential users. There was a post on one of the Netgear forums about something called a Clear Access model AG10W
Maybe as the subscriber, you could call ETEX and ask if this is the model number of the equipment they placed at your house?
