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Speed from 500mbps down to 25mbps
So i just received the Orbi yesterday and have it setup. The good news is, I have full signel all over my house. The bad news is, if I tested the speed via ethernet cable between the rounter and ...
that sounds like an explaination...but regardless of the material of the ceiling / floor (I would guess its made of cement?) I live on a 4 story hosue and the modem is placed on the groud floor, I then place the satellite on the 2/F, which seems reasonable considering it is the center of the house.
lekw310388 wrote:I live on a 4 story hosue and the modem is placed on the groud floor, I then place the satellite on the 2/F, which seems reasonable considering it is the center of the house.
if the floors / ceilings are concrete and reinforced metal bars you will be lucky to get up one floor never mind 2 , i think you may need to reconsider your options here
do you have ethernet installed between the floors at all
So you are suggesting me to relocate the satellite to the first floor? So by keeping the router on the groud floor and satellite being ont he first floor, I don't see how I would get any signal if I'm on the top floor.....
Unfortunately I don't have any ethernet installed betweens the floors, that's why I was using powerline adapter and now switching to Orbi...
lekw310388 wrote:I don't see how I would get any signal if I'm on the top floor.....
you wont , its a simple matter of physics , that concrete just wont pass the wif so your pretty much screwed wifi wise with any solution you go in this field be that orbi or any other mesh system
peteytesting wrote:you wont , its a simple matter of physics , that concrete just wont pass the wif so your pretty much screwed wifi wise with any solution you go in this field be that orbi or any other mesh system
A truly mesh system (not Orbi) should work if there are stairwells (instead of say elevators) betweeen floors. You should be able to place mesh access points at the top and bottom of the stairwells, to provide a pathway from floor to floor. That's how mesh is supposed to work. Overall throughput would suffer though, because all the upper floor traffic would pass through a few mesh points near the bottom.
If the structure is wired with copper wire for telephone lines, lekw310388 could use a DSL-based extender between floors. Startech makes one, and it's intended for exactly this purpose. It provides 100 Mbps maximum throughput. See this link: