Wired vs wireless backhaul with a 100mbps Ethernet

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Jsonadam wrote:

Would I be better keeping it as wireless backhaul or connecting to the 100 mbps ethernet?

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Short of running extensive comparison throughput tests, there is no way to predict.  You can get a rough idea of the current situation by connecting to the Orbi router with telnet and typing this command:

satelliteinfo  wifi

Here's what my Orbi reports:

root@RBR50:/# satelliteinfo wifi
{
"mac address" : "A0:04:60:xx:xx:xx",
"hop" : "1",
"bridge mac" : "A0:04:60:xx:xx:xx",
"backhaul conntype" : "5GHz",
"backhaul rssi" : "-71",
"backhaul macaddress" : "A0:04:60:xx:xx:xx",
"backhaul phytxrate" : "975",
"backhaul phyrxrate" : "780",
"backhaul parentmac" : "A0:04:60:xx:xx:xx"
}

I have only one satellite.  You have three.  If the satellite with WiFi backhaul reports a speed considerably higher than 100, that may be a reason to stick with the WiFi backhaul.  WiFi loses a considerable part of the bandwidth to overhead, whereas ethernet does not.