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What’s needed for two homes
I have two homes wired together with a Cat6A cable. One house has the internet service coming in. Can I connect two rbk53s systems? One router with the service connection connecting to two satellites ...
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I do need three access points in the second house. One for downstairs, one for upstairs and one for the garage.
I do need three access points in the second house. One for downstairs, one for upstairs and one for the garage.
If the second Orbi is in access point mode, then the primary router will provide all of the IP addresses to devices attached to both systems.
You can use the same WiFi name/password for both systems.
To all of the devices that do not move (TV's, desktops, IP cameras, thermostats, garage door openers, sprinkler controllers, etc. etc. etc.) it will be one seamless network.
The only concern I have is with devices that roam. I do not think the "hand off" from one Orbi to the other will be as smooth as it will be between the units on a single Orbi. I fear things like cell phones will stick stubbornly to the Orbi they are on until the signal gets so weak that they "give up" and look for another WiFi. (But then, I am wrong about so many things these days.)
How big of an issue is this?
- What you describe actually sounds like what I have going on right now. We have ATT fiber, somewhat unreliable here. With a nighthawk R8000 x6 in front of the ATT router in bridge mode, then a hard line to the other home with a R7000 nighthawk there in Access Point mode. Then there are a couple nighthawk EX7000 extenders connected via WiFi in the first house.