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Trying to Setup Home WiFI with Network Monitoring (Domotz Box)
I am looking into the Netgear Orbi setup for my house (approximately 4,500 sq. foot house with 3 floors). I am thinking about getting the Orbi routers and putting the router on the main floor and one satelite on the top floor and a second in the basement. Should I get the AC3000 or the AC2200?
I am also looking at buying the Domotz Box for Networking Monitoring. https://www.domotz.com/getting-started-remote-network-management/
Domotz website does not list the Netgear Orbi as one of the routers it has been tested to work with on its website.
Domotz documentation says it can recognize all devices from routers that publish out the MAC address (layer 2 devices) of the devices that are connected to them. If the router only publishes the IP address (Layer 3 devices) then Domotz you will show the router with multiple IP addresses connected to it.
Has anyone configured the Netgear Orbi router to work with a Domotz network monitoring box?
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Sorry, I meant to explicitly ask if the Netgear router will publish both the IP Address and the MAC Address for each device that connects to it.
scottandria wrote:
I am looking into the Netgear Orbi setup for my house (approximately 4,500 sq. foot house with 3 floors). I am thinking about getting the Orbi routers and putting the router on the main floor and one satelite on the top floor and a second in the basement. Should I get the AC3000 or the AC2200?
hi , orbi doesnt work that way
you will need the orbi router between the sats , works this way
sat ---- orbi router ---- sat
not
router ---- sat ----sat
scottandria wrote:
I am also looking at buying the Domotz Box for Networking Monitoring. https://www.domotz.com/getting-started-remote-network-management/
Domotz website does not list the Netgear Orbi as one of the routers it has been tested to work with on its website.
Domotz documentation says it can recognize all devices from routers that publish out the MAC address (layer 2 devices) of the devices that are connected to them. If the router only publishes the IP address (Layer 3 devices) then Domotz you will show the router with multiple IP addresses connected to it.
Has anyone configured the Netgear Orbi router to work with a Domotz network monitoring box?
with regard to the Domotz box , you would run that as you router and the orbi system in ap mode behind it so none of the orbi router functions would be active apart from the wifi
in ap mode the orbi would work fine in the config i have mentioned above and in ap mode and supplying wifi
Thanks for the reply.
The Domotz box is not a router. It is stritly a network monitoring device. Do you know if Orbi publishes information (MAC and IP) about the devices that connect to it?
As far as the setup is concerned, both satelites would connect to the router on the main level. Since I will have 3 units--router and two satelites--should I go with the AC3000 or the AC2200?
Thanks for the reply.
The Domotz box is not a router. It is stritly a network monitoring device. Do you know if Orbi publishes information (MAC and IP) about the devices that connect to it?
As far as the setup is concerned, both satelites would connect to the router on the main level. Since I will have 3 units--router and two satelites--should I go with the AC3000 or the AC2200?
No router in the world 'publishes' such information - Domotz monitors networks the same way everyone else does, via ping (is it reachable?) and SNMP (what can I learn about it, in terms of interfaces, throughput, and other health metrics)?
I don't believe Orbi allows collection of SNMP data from it, so what you'll get from the Orbi itself is extremely limited. Domotz also monitors -any- device it can find on the network, so I'm not sure it's that much of a loss if you can't get detailed stats from Orbi.
Rodney
