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WLAN Backhaul Turn Off
If my Orbi satellite is using a wired ethernet backhaul what happens to the default WLAN backhaul? Does that get used for normal wireless mode or is it lost?
I do not understand why we do not have an option to turn off the wireless backhaul when wired is in place and operational. Its a tremendous amount of wireless bandwidth that is going unused, and I also do not know what is traversing either the wired or wireless backhaul, since both are still in place.
I guess that the wireless backhaul (2x2 of the backhaul) will be used as fallback option in case that Ethernet backhaul fails.
I would like that Netgear will allow the user to choose which channels to use for the fronthaul (clients) and which for backhaul. Today only 4 channels (5GHz) are allowed for fronthaul all other channels are open only for backhaul which is really a waste if you're using wired backhaul.
I recently bought RBK50 as they have received good reviews and support ethernet backhaul, which is a key feature. So, I'm hoping that Netgear will tweak the Ethernet backhaul further too also add the feature to use the capacity of the wireless backhaul when daisy-chaining is disabled.
Something you can post here about:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
Something that may or may not be included anytime soon however.
Good Luck.
Aleksanderh wrote:
I recently bought RBK50 as they have received good reviews and support ethernet backhaul, which is a key feature. So, I'm hoping that Netgear will tweak the Ethernet backhaul further too also add the feature to use the capacity of the wireless backhaul when daisy-chaining is disabled.
