RBK754 with powerline

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xcape451 wrote:

Hi, 

I'm thinking about buying a new RBR754 with 3 satellites, but I need to install one of them in the basement, and I think that the communication between the router and the satellite can be very difficult.

Could I connect this satellite to the router using an ethernet powerline and the backhaul connection feature? (accepting the bandwith limitations that the powerline offers).

Performance aside, would that work?

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This question boils down to two issues:

• Performance aside (and it can be a BIG gap in performance), As far as the Orbi units are concerned "ethernet is ethernet".  They sense a gigabit connection and have no idea that there is something besides an ethernet cable in the path.  Customers have deployed radio links, Powerline, etc.  It is impossible for the Orbi to detect that anything besides ethernet cable is there.  I would certainly use Powerline with gigabit interfaces rather than the (much older) Powerline with 10/100 jacks.
• Wired satellites seem to be a hot topic on the user forum.  I see heated discussions in terms of AP vs. router mode, instability, version 4 firmware vs version 3, etc.  Not having the 750 series myself, I do not follow the discussions very closely.  It might be worth taking a few minutes to browse the AX customer forum and look at what people are discussing.  It seems to me that Costco has sold a bunch of 750 Orbi's and they would not continue doing so if every customer returned the product.  As with many of these topics, I am at a loss to explain what could cause some customers to be blissfully happy and other customers to be beset with intractable problems to the point that they dump the investment in Orbi and buy another product.

If it is at all possible to run an ethernet cable to the basement, that would be much higher performance.