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Orbi outdoor satellite range versus indoor satellite range
Hi, I have a large property and I am trying to get wifi from my house out to my barn and up to my pond. I have my router in the house and 1 satellite in the pond pumphouse and 1 in the barn. My cov...
jfishburne wrote:
I have been chatting with Net Gear's Orbi support. For me they recommended that I use the outdoor rated satellite in the middle (I happen to have power in a central location) and use it as a daisy-chain between my router and my farthest satellite which is about 650 feet from my router. I was getting 1 bar of coverage between my router and that farthest satellite and they said this should fix it. I hope that helps.
I looked at your diagram. If I were you I would just go move satellite 2 to the "possible" location temporarily, and see if it improves satellite 3 (or vice versa). That should give you a clue whether it will work before you buy anything.
One issue with daisy-chaining is that the user cannot control it. The system will decide whether to daisy-chain or go direct to the router, and you can't set it one way or the other. By doing the above, you can also see if the system is stable.
That is great thinking. Thank you. I hadn't thought about not being able to control whether it daisy chains or not.
You could turn off daisy chain as an option in the router
- Yes, but that would defeat the whole point of adding a third sat in this case. When you “enable” daisy chain it does not force it. Nor can you program the kit to daisy chain one sat through a given satellite.
I'm pretty sure his barn satellite will daisy chain through a centrally located RBS50Y given the chance, but like was mentioned, can just test the theory by temporarily setting up the other satellite in the middle and let it try to daisy chain.
I have a downstairs RBS40 that Daisy chains through the RBS50Y outside on the deck attached to the upper floor instead of to the router (at the other end of the house on the upper floor) or the RBS50 literally twelve feet away in the floor above it. This is due to something in my living room floor/ den ceiling that quite effectively kills wifi signals.
