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Using two Netgear Orbi AC3000 RBS50Y to increase coverage range
We currently have on Netgear RBS50Y to extend our WiFi range from a main building down to the Lake front. Its about 750 yards. Down there I have 8 ARLO cameras connected to the same ARLO Base with ...
its 750 yards away? (2,250 feet?)
If so, you should use a point to point system like netgear airbridge to get a connection to the lake front and then setup an satellite (the rbs50Y doesn't have an ethernet port so you'd need something like the standard rbs50 with one). From there you could use the 2x rbs50y.
I'm impressed you made it that far and it actually works.
Yes, the ARLO folks are also quite amazed. But my error it was 750 feet from the WiFi extender to the first camera. But then going South and North its 300 feet in both directions.
Now, regarding the Wireless AirBridge. I manage 23 ARLO cameras in our Lake Community which includes a Golf Course, Tennis Courts, Ballfield, Maint Shed and our Club house.
I utilize from the Golf shed, Ubiquiti NanoBeam AC Point to Multipoint access. One Beam sends to another area with receives it with a Modem/Router and then that sends a Beam to another location which receives it. There I have a Frontier AIRTIES 4920 Router which then connects to our ARLO base for the cameras. Each location is about 300 feet apart.
Back to the AirBridge, I was using a JooWin CFW-E72 antenna in AP or Repeater mode. Reading the documentation about AirBridge they do seem similar. I never was able to get a solid stable connection using the JooWin. The POE Lan/Wan just never stayed connected.
I could try the JooWin down at the lake as long as you are saying the Netgear Airbridge is essential the same type of device. But the JooWin does require a cable coming in from one of those NanoBeams.