Orbi Upgrade options and compatability

Thanks for your reply.

The issue I have with the current setup is the distance between router and satelites. Unfortunately its situated at the furthest perimeter of the building as that is where a) the BT connection is and b) its where the TV, Sky and majority of other devices are and i have them on wired connections.

Distance to satelites is just over 30 feet. The house was built in 1999 and they unfortunately did not have IT in mind then, so where the router should be (in the middle on the ground floor) there is either no power, no connectivity or/and no where to put a satellite or router.

My key issue at the moment is to get wired connections into the top floor for sky and the smart tv. I was using inline power repeaters but everytime i had an issue or an upgrade for them i had to climb under desks and move them to the same room to get them to resync. recently they stopped working altogether.

I missed out on some RBR40 kit on ebay this week, which would have been a solution. I am not sure i want to invest in any RBR50 kit as this will be superdeded with Wifi 6 RBK852 at some point. So currently I am thinking of buying that and linking the two systems together to get the ports i need in the places i need them.

Thanks for your other advice re Beamforming and MIMO. I have enabled them (am surprsed they are not enabled by default)

I have also done some signal analysis and my wifi is on channel 13 currently but i dont see any conflicts with other nearby houses

i did a factory reset last week after all my orbi units did an upgrade during the night and several devices were not able to pick up dhcp addresses. this also means they are on the latest version and two days ago i upgraded the dm200 as that was behind.

I did think about buying a mesh repeater just to solve my problem but the 2200 versions all seem to be out of stock. i am guessing everyone has had to improve wifi due to lockdown demands within their households.