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reconfiguring our Orbi RBR50 with a new cabled satellite
Our church has an RBR50 Orbi trio with the router connected to a cable modem. The cable modem and RBR are in the office area of the church, but our desired connection is to a satellite unit in the sa...
I would be really confident if the connection is over ethernet cable. We have reports of dozens of Orbi users who have done so.
150' is well within the distance ethernet can cover.
Fiber media converters are "something new" to most of us.
In general, Yes. After a few minutes, the Orbi satellite should recognize (what it thinks is) the ethernet connection and switch over. The status should change from WiFi to "wired". Computers are never as 'fast' as we expect them to be.
If this does not happen, then the task would be to rule out the fiber link as a problem.
- Temporarily move the satellite to the same location as the router and connect it with an ethernet patch cable.
This rules out the Orbi and makes the fiber link suspect (but not guilty). - Connect a computer (anything with an ethernet port) to the fiber link.
If it connects, the fiber link is good.
Sound to me as if you are fortunate to have someone who works with fiber, is familiar with media converters, and is confident in the installation. There is probably already a standard protocol to verify the integrity of the fiber and media converters.
- Temporarily move the satellite to the same location as the router and connect it with an ethernet patch cable.
Thanks for the encouragement, CrimpOn. We did the installation on Saturday and it went well. As you indicated, after a few minutes being cabled directly, the Router found the Satellite as a wired connection and we were able to connect all the way to the second building. Testing the speed back to the Router to the Cable Modem and on to Charter Spectrum showed over10MB uplink and almost 100 down.
The service went on for almost an hour this morning, sending the video out to FaceBook without a glitch. Our church new has full wireless networking over the entire campus.
Congratulations. Having people with the right skill set is wonderful.
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