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Wireless bridges in an Orbi setup
I'm moving into a larger house. I've been spoiled the last few years network-wise, as my current house is wired with ethernet cable. The new one will not be; so, I'm looking for a good wifi solution ...
I would recommend using an additional satellite, instead of trying to use a wireless bridge with Orbi. Orbi uses a lot of spectrum, and it could be difficult to avoid interference between Orbi and a bridge, unless the bridge was 2.4 GHz only.
Thanks for the heads-up re: CostCo. I do have a membership; and the price there for the RBK53 makes this decision a no-brainer.
I have a similar situation and looking for a solution for wired devices in my home-office. I too had considered putting an orbi-sat in the office for this.
However, my office is directly upstairs from the Router and I thought too close to put an additional satellite. In fact, I tried to put my single sat in the office and things became very unstable, I think the closeness cause too much wifi overlap. My Sat is now safely back in the other corner of the house.
martyfp wrote:I have a similar situation and looking for a solution for wired devices in my home-office. I too had considered putting an orbi-sat in the office for this.
However, my office is directly upstairs from the Router and I thought too close to put an additional satellite. In fact, I tried to put my single sat in the office and things became very unstable, I think the closeness cause too much wifi overlap. My Sat is now safely back in the other corner of the house.
Interesting.
Are you now using a conventional bridge? (Which one? Are you happy with its performance?)
At the current CostCo price (just about $100 more than Amazon's price for the RBK50), it's still worth getting the additional satellite "just in case". If it doesn't work out, I'll shop for a bridge.
I'll just suggest you leave most of the default settings before you go adjusting things. It seems that Netgear does not test very well for stability and but customizing, you probably get further and further from what they have tested. Also if you have stabiltiy issues first thing to try turning off is UPnP as that did it for me, and I have been running it rock solid for the past several weeks.
Currently, I have a rather rubbish N wifi access point configured as a bridge. This works OK for the printer but is somewhat slow and clanky. I would like to be able to plug a couple of NAS devices into it but it is a bit slow for that. I would like an AC device to replace it..
I have considered getting something like a N7000 and configuring as an ethernet bridge. For me though, this is a case of *want* rather than *need* so I have not looked much more into it yet.
I have not tried reducing the wifi-power in 2.0 to see if it enables me to use a SAT in this location. I did try reducing the 2.4GHz power to see if it helped with keeping devices on 5GHz but all hell broke loose so I quickly put it back !
martyfp wrote:However, my office is directly upstairs from the Router and I thought too close to put an additional satellite. In fact, I tried to put my single sat in the office and things became very unstable, I think the closeness cause too much wifi overlap. My Sat is now safely back in the other corner of the house.
The 2.0 firmware brought back the ability to adjust the radio output power. That might help in your situation with too much WiFi.