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Orbi wired backhaul performance
Has anyone that isn’t experiencing issues gotten an idea of the performance gains, if any, with wired backhaul? Also, has netgear mentioned anything about opening up the 3rd high speed band to wirele...
I just recently wired my orbi system using cat5e going from the satellites to the router. The main difference I noticed is much lower ping time (which is great for things like gaming, or in my case, in home streaming from a PC).
I was trying to set up my network for steam's in home streaming, with my desktop plugged into one of the satellites and performance was just terrible and unusable. Even though performance was good for streaming video from Netflix, in home streaming requires low latency and stable connection. I could still stream to a laptop connected wirelessly and it's perfect now. I think it's mostly because of my specific configuration.
As far as using power line adapter, I would recommend against it since the wireless backhaul on the orbi is very good, just not good enough for my needs. So far, the orbi wireless backhaul has surpassed any power line adapter I've tried by a long shot. So, if you can't pass a cat5 cable from the router to the satellite, any other method is a waste of time and effort IMO. Hope that helps.
I was trying to set up my network for steam's in home streaming, with my desktop plugged into one of the satellites and performance was just terrible and unusable. Even though performance was good for streaming video from Netflix, in home streaming requires low latency and stable connection. I could still stream to a laptop connected wirelessly and it's perfect now. I think it's mostly because of my specific configuration.
As far as using power line adapter, I would recommend against it since the wireless backhaul on the orbi is very good, just not good enough for my needs. So far, the orbi wireless backhaul has surpassed any power line adapter I've tried by a long shot. So, if you can't pass a cat5 cable from the router to the satellite, any other method is a waste of time and effort IMO. Hope that helps.
I noticed the same thing... my ping was reduced back to where it was before I implemented Orbi. The D/L and U/L speeds haven't changed but I am much happier to have a lower ping rate for occasional gaming etc...
