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Orbi system
I use apple products in my house and have viasat internet. I purchased Orbi for the fact that I want the WiFi extended throughout my house and outside. So I placed two satellites near where I want ...
When most people install an Orbi system, they turn off the WiFi on their existing system and use the Orbi WiFi instead.
Since you already had WiFi, that means the internet service provider box is a combination modem/router/wifi. The Orbi default installation is as a router/wifi. It is not great to have two routers and two wifi systems in the same house.
Our general recommendation is to:
- Change the service provider device to a "modem only", sometimes described as putting it into "bridge mode" or "passthrough mode." On many devices, the user can do this. On others, the subscriber has to call the service provider to have them do it. (They get 100's of these requests each day, so they know what this is about.)
- Change the Orbi WiFi name (SSID) and password to match exactly the WiFi name and password you have been using. This means that all of your WiFi devices will automatically log into the Orbi now that the original WiFi system is no longer broadcasting.
Make sense?