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Orbi to improve coverage?
My house is 2650 square feet and is one level. My R7000 is about 1/3 back from the front of the house and 2/5 from the right of the house. I have a poor signal in the room at the right back of the hou...
- With the Orbi issues, I decided to try relocating my AC1900 Nighthawk to the other side of the office. This was great as it covers the whole house now. No need to get the Orbi in my opinion.
Thanks for all the help that was provided.
Well I have my Main base at the far end of a 60 foot expance and 1 Satellite at the far end of the house. Total distance between them is about 45-50 feet approx. Ya, placement is key. However with the Orbi router and 1 Satellite (RBK30) in use, you have some room to put the router not as close to center in the house and use the Satellite at the remote location to help make the coverage better. I guess a good balance with placement will be needed. Size of your house may not require a Sateliite. My orignal house was 2200 sq ft. IF I kept the main host router centrally located in the house, wireless range was complete throughout the house. So maybe in your case, just the Orbi router will all that will be needed.
mwhalswrote:
The AC2200 can be the RBK30, RBK40, or RBK43 that cover 3,500 / 4,000 / 6,000 square feet, respectively. With an Orbi needing to be in the front half of the house and about 40% across, I am not sure if It needs two satellites on the back wall of the house on either end.
My R7000 can not touch the back corners of the house. Either direction, it has to penetrate a bathroom and/or utility room. My house is much longer than it is deep. if I have the plugin Orbi on either end and a smaller Orbi router, maybe it would be good. I would have 30-40 feet distance between each satellite and main router. The two satellites would be 100 feet apart.
I also want my full speed internet in those back corners, so just having a signal is not good enough.
I could put the Orbi more centered since I have Ethernet in our living room area. I will try my router in that location. That will give me more information to figure it out. Maybe a more powerful router is a better option.
I also want my full speed internet in those back corners, so just having a signal is not good enough.
I could put the Orbi more centered since I have Ethernet in our living room area. I will try my router in that location. That will give me more information to figure it out. Maybe a more powerful router is a better option.
Well the wifi power and range on the R7000 is different and probably lower than the Orbi system.
From my placement and range and operation in my house, I get to spec speeds with the Orbi router and 1 Satellite. Been amazing range and performance for my sq footage house.
If you doing 100feet then ya you may need more than one Satellite.
I would first test the Orbi router and just 1 Satellite first, test the range and performances. Then add as you need. They can be daisy chained from what I'm told.
- I was not successful making the R7000 an access point, because I do not have a second router. I did find that I do get 100 Mbps in my back two rooms with just the R7000. I want to get closer to 200 Mbps all through the house and may go up to 400 Mbps service.
The R7000 needs a primary host router to connect to when in AP mode.
The R7000 may not have the power or range to reach remote locations. Either adding a extender or installing a Orbi system would be options to review.
mwhalswrote:
I was not successful making the R7000 an access point, because I do not have a second router. I did find that I do get 100 Mbps in my back two rooms with just the R7000. I want to get closer to 200 Mbps all through the house and may go up to 400 Mbps service.- I am going to look at Orbi systems tomorrow. I will keep the R7000 as a router and firewall. The Orbi would be set up as an access point.
I am not interested in 2 band extenders due to the speed penalty and separate SSID.