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makoychan
Mar 26, 2019Aspirant
Upgrading to Orbi concrete bldg.
Hi,
Has anybody had experiece setting up an orbi wifi system on a concerte bldg. My family has a 5 floors concrete residential bldg. i am planning upgrade the wifi system there, the ceiling hei...
- Mar 26, 2019
Any chance of placing wired APs at each location? Concrete is going to play major havoc on Orbi and wifi MESH. You can use the system with the satellites connected via ethernet LAN cable if you have the abililty to do that.
5Ghz doesn't work well with concrete.
FURRYe38
Mar 26, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Any chance of placing wired APs at each location? Concrete is going to play major havoc on Orbi and wifi MESH. You can use the system with the satellites connected via ethernet LAN cable if you have the abililty to do that.
5Ghz doesn't work well with concrete.
- makoychanMar 26, 2019Aspirant
the wired AP was my old setup lol.. the thing is our bldg doesnt have provision to run wires within floors, so it ended up having thos cat 5 cables haging outside the floor patios hehehe.. but anyway thanks for your input, ill check the models of your setup.
Thanks a bunch.
- FURRYe38Mar 26, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Ya, LAN cable would be best if you can run them with out problems.
Good Luck.
- makoychanMar 26, 2019Aspirant
does the EX7700 works better than the orbi sattelite? Can it work if i do EX7700 on each floor, i havent work yet with meshing so no idea if i 2 mesh or 2 satellite connecting to each and 1 of it is getting the inet from the wifi router.