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Plaster Walls - Orbi Fails
My house was built in 1949 and I used to have Apple Extreme and Express, 3 total. My house is only 1245 sq ft. 1) The Orbi signal is pretty good, but it drops and constantly needs to be reset or sy...
I also have a house built in 1949 with plaster and cinderblock walls. It's abut 1500 SF and I can cover it fine using two wired access points. (From Ubiquiti) The 5 GHz WiFi signal hardly makes it into the next room, but the 2.4 GHz travels farther.
Your best bet would be the same type of setup (wired APs.) However, I would expect you could achieve Ok coverage using Orbi. You need to place the router and satellite such that they can make a solid 5 GHz backhaul connecton to each other. That means putting them closer together, or with minimal (preferably no) walls between them. Maybe you could put them closer together towards the middle half of the house, then let the 2.4 GHz serve the outer reaches of the house.