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Use of Radios on Orbi Pro WiFi 6 SXR80/SXS80
Hi, I'm going to be migrating from a NETGEAR R8500 to an Orbi Pro wiFi 6 mesh system. I had my R8500 set up so that all of my devices except my Play-Fi music components were connected to a wireless...
With Orbi Pro, you have up to seven 5 GHz and seven 2.4 GHz radios all over your house (one router and up to six satellites). For individual networks can be defined, each network is represented by it's unique SSID (network name) - this is where you select the network your wireless clients are connecting to.
What is the point for binding your Play-Fi systems just to a single radio? Leaving alone the Orbi Pro (or Orbi, or most other Mesh systems) don't offer this...
Deploying your Play-Fi to a different network would make the control from e.g. the mobile difficult, you don't want to switch between the networks just to control the music.
- I think he is referring to the wireless vlan associations vs the number of radios.
According to what i just read about the sxr80 system, each device has the same 3 radios your current 8500 has. You could still use your current setup as each vlan is configurable (according to what I read in the manual) to either be isolated or not.
Remember, with a Mesh system, its same ssid and password for the whole system, not just one node (unless you set it up that way).
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