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Marvinal
Follower
Nov 12, 2018

Two Networks

Sorry for my lack of knowledge... I’ve got a Cable modem from my ISP and a VPN outer from Sabai (configured for StrongVPN).  My Orbi is usually hooked up to the ISP but when I want it hooked up to ...
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ekhalil
Master
Nov 12, 2018
Marvinal wrote:

Sorry for my lack of knowledge...

I’ve got a Cable modem from my ISP and a VPN outer from Sabai (configured for StrongVPN).  My Orbi is usually hooked up to the ISP but when I want it hooked up to the VPN I have to switch the cable. 

Im overseas (Brazil) and the house is concrete and huge so I can’t connect to anything without my orbi hooked up.  Should I just get another orbi router or wil that cause conflicts?

I’d leave it always on the VPN but it is occasionally laggy and at the moment Netflix isn’t working through the VPN. 

Thanks

So as I understand it you have two internet sources. Orbi does not support 2 internet source, so yes, I think that the best solution for you is to get another Orbi router to connect to the second internet source and have two SSID's one for every internet source. Make sure that each Orbi uses different fronthaul radio bands.