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WLAN Backhaul Turn Off
If my Orbi satellite is using a wired ethernet backhaul what happens to the default WLAN backhaul? Does that get used for normal wireless mode or is it lost?
The upper 5GHz channels used for Backhaul will not be used for clients when using Ethernet Backhaul. These will be used as backup when your wired network fails and you need to fall back to wireless so these will be on all time.
But I also noticed that when using wirelsee Backhaul the Router and Satellites will each have 2 hidden 5 GHz networks for the Backhaul, but when using wired Backhaul only one hidden network per node will be used for Backhaul.
I believe the two hidden SSIDs per satellite appear when daisy chain is enabled. If daisy chain is not enabled, there is only one hidden SSID per satellite.