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Orbi won't reach garden room
Hi,
I bought a RBK50 setup but putting the satelite in the garden room is just out of range. I have a wired connection to it, but was hoping the Orbi would reach so that I could have the simpli...
stoosh98 wrote:
I bought a RBK50 setup but putting the satelite in the garden room is just out of range. I have a wired connection to it, but was hoping the Orbi would reach so that I could have the simplicty of one wireless network name.
Are there any Orbi options I could have to help get the Wifi extended to the end of the garden? At the moment I have a dlink that is acting as a WIFI access point but it's an old modem and is really quite painful to manage. How about using another router? I tried plugging the satelite in but seems the ethernet ports weren't capable of turning it into an AP.
I'm having trouble understanding your problem. You have the ability to wire the garden room satellite to the Orbi router? Then your wireless reach problem is solved and the satellite will be an access point using the same SSID as the main Orbi.
The problem is the satelite cannot connect via a wire. I tried that and it didn't work, unless I was doing it incorrectly? It is also just a bit too far for the wifi connection, it goes between amber and magenta.
I currently have an old router connected by a wire at the end of the garden. I could update settings to mimic the Orbi network as I had done previously on my old network, but I like the Orbi seteup as a hassle free solution that I would like to use instead, if possible.