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Which devices do I buy Outddor Satellite
I am looking to install an RBS50Y Outdoor Satellite. I am pretty sure I read that I can only connect it to an Orbi Router. Which one do I buy? So far all I seem to find are Kits including th...
Hopefully this helps:
Yes, the Outdoor Orbi (RBS50Y) is only sold as a stand-alone, meaning that you have to purchase an Orbi Router from elsewhere. A couple of suggestions:
1. purchase a kit that contains an Orbi Router (e.g. RBK50 / RBK30 /...) and sell off the extra satellite on a 2nd hand site (e.g. eBay, ...)
2. purchase the Router online in a 2nd hand site. I occasionally see people who have purchased 2 kits, to acqure just the satellites and the Router becomes extra.
FYI, from a purely performance perspective, the RBR50 is the best matched because it's the only Orbi Router that has a 4x4 backhaul.
I will take this back and see if we can create a kit for those like you.
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Not really. I ONLY want to extend to the outside. All of the ORBI systems I see seem to include and INDOOR satellite. and a router I would only require the router.
KMWNAZ wrote:Not really. I ONLY want to extend to the outside. All of the ORBI systems I see seem to include and INDOOR satellite. and a router I would only require the router.
OK....but I'll stay confused. You said..."I am looking to install an RBS50Y Outdoor Satellite"....but then you said ..."I would only require the router"
I don't mean to be misleading. If you look on Netgear's web site it appears to me that they ONLY sell ORBI routers WITH an INDOOR satellite. I only want an OUTDOOR satellite and I believe in order to use the OUTDOOR satellite it requires an ORBI ROUTER.
So going back to my first sentence - Netgear appears to only sell routers with INDOOR satellites which I don't need. So I am trying to confirm all of this.
Make sense?
KMWNAZ wrote:I don't mean to be misleading. If you look on Netgear's web site it appears to me that they ONLY sell ORBI routers WITH an INDOOR satellite. I only want an OUTDOOR satellite and I believe in order to use the OUTDOOR satellite it requires an ORBI ROUTER.
So going back to my first sentence - Netgear appears to only sell routers with INDOOR satellites which I don't need. So I am trying to confirm all of this.
Make sense?
Sure, it makes sense. Not being a NG product guru I'm not sure they have what you want, but they might. Unless you're trying to connect something out on the north forty of your farm, I would get one of the NG router/sat packages. Most of them will provide wifi coverage up to 4K sq feet or more. Good luck.