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Please look at my network design and help deciding if Orbi is the way to go.
Hi, I'm designing my home network and I have a few questions I hope some of you can aswer for me. I have 1100m2 of ground and a 2 story house. I have a 600mbit fiber connection. I'm thinking ...
Orbi backhaul does work going through switches.
If you continue to use your fritzbox as router, place the orbi in AP mode. This will disable its nat function and allow your primary router to act as nat.
Hi plemans,
Thanks for helping me (again).
To clarify, I have 1200m2 of land and in that land sits a house of 217m2 (measered over both levels).
I'm aiming for full wifi coverage inside. In the garden I want an accesspoint at the place we sit most.
So most of the garden will have no or poor wifi and that's fine.
At the moment I have the same setup with accesspoints and (apart from the crap job I did setting up the network) the coverage is fine.
I do have a router (fritzbox) and it is working fine. But if it is advisable to start using the router of Orbi I'm fine with switching. As long as the NAT capabilities are similar.
My only remaining question would be, will backhaul work when the satellites are connected via switches?
Kind regards,
Daniel
Edit: all listed devices will be hard wired except for the phones, tablet and laptops. Looking at the number of devices it should support (2 of each) it shouldn't be an issue.
Thanks for helping me (again).
To clarify, I have 1200m2 of land and in that land sits a house of 217m2 (measered over both levels).
I'm aiming for full wifi coverage inside. In the garden I want an accesspoint at the place we sit most.
So most of the garden will have no or poor wifi and that's fine.
At the moment I have the same setup with accesspoints and (apart from the crap job I did setting up the network) the coverage is fine.
I do have a router (fritzbox) and it is working fine. But if it is advisable to start using the router of Orbi I'm fine with switching. As long as the NAT capabilities are similar.
My only remaining question would be, will backhaul work when the satellites are connected via switches?
Kind regards,
Daniel
Edit: all listed devices will be hard wired except for the phones, tablet and laptops. Looking at the number of devices it should support (2 of each) it shouldn't be an issue.
Orbi backhaul does work going through switches.
If you continue to use your fritzbox as router, place the orbi in AP mode. This will disable its nat function and allow your primary router to act as nat.