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Outdoor coverage with Orbi RBS760
I've just installed an Orbi RBS760 system in my house with 4 satellites. I want to get wifi in my back garden but am not sure what product to add. It looks like the WAX610Y is Netgear's only o...
one of customer home have mixed Orbi and couple of WAX610Y.
It works well.
The office room rack has the ISP's router(wifi turned off), Orbi, Poe Switch.
Inside the home there are one Orbi router and 2 Satellites with wireless backhauls providing the Wi-Fi.
Outside the home there are two WAX610Y.
The SSID, Password and Security type all exactly match between the two systems.
The clients are able to roam and associate to the best signal.
The network topology looks like this :
ISP-Modem===Orbi Router ===PoE+ switch==Cat6 cables===Two WAX610Y (on the outside walls of the home)
Poe+ injectors can be used if there is no unmanaged Poe+ switch available.
Example of unmanaged Poe+ switch
https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/plus/gs305ep/
Thanks for reporting this mix of Residential Orbi and Business (Insight) products. Could you comment on their observation about seamless roaming? ***
My searches do not turn up much from Netgear regarding mixing the two product families. Three years ago, one Netgear employee responded "no" in response to a similar question:
Seamless roaming is the key characteristic of mesh WiFi networks. Years ago, people created wider WiFi coverage areas by deploying WiFi Extenders, connected to the primary WiFi system with cable or over a WiFi link. Even if an extender is defined with WiFi credentials exactly matching the primary system (SSID/password), a common complaint was that mobile devices would stubbornly hold onto an existing WiFi connection that was getting weaker and weaker, rather than switch to a different WiFi access point with a stronger signal. At some point, the mobile device will "give up" on the existing connection, search for WiFi access points that it knows the credentials for, and connect. The problem people experienced was that performance would become poor or that there would be a gap in service before the re-connection took place.
Thus, a person might have a mobile device (phone, tablet, laptop) that is connected to the primary WiFi system, but not be actively using an application that is sensitive to the connection. Moving outside and away from the indoor Orbi, it might switch to the outdoor WAX610Y and they would not be aware. However, if actively streaming video, or on a network phone call, they might be aware of a "glitch".
Mesh WiFi networks that appeared in 2015-2016 addressed this problem by actively using IEEE standards that manage the transition between WiFi access points.
*** Thus the question: Has this client commented specifically about how this mix or Orbi and WAX710Y performs as a mobile device transitions from indoors to outdoors (or back) while actively using a network application?
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