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Looking to buy a satellite for MR60
Hello,
Our Smart TV is located on the opposite site of our house where the MR60 router is located in the office. The TV with AppleTV is constant buffering and picture is always pixely. The distance between the office and the TV room is roughly 40 feet. The TV room is actually a room above the garage and almost extruding out. Our house is almost like L shape. Therefore wireless signals may be going through the outside and back into garage wall and TV room. If I buy a satellite, would it solve our issue? Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you,
Mustafa
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What is the size of the home in sq feet. Do you have just the MR60 or there any other MS deployed?
If no other MS are deployed then ya, adding a MS60 can help.
Look at places like Amazon, ebay or shopgoodwill for MS units.
Hello FURRYe38, As you suggested, I purchased for MS unit from Ebay. It is coming in Saturday. In the meantime, do you have any YouTube that show how to sync the satellite with the router? Thanks for your help.
Review this: https://kb.netgear.com/000061554/How-do-I-install-my-NETGEAR-Mesh-WiFi-6-System
Something to be aware of, the incoming MS may not be at same level in FW as your existing system. You might first ethernet connect the MS to the MR and see if it will sync and if you can get a IP address on the new MS, log into that IP address with a ethernet connected PC and web browser and manually update the new MS to same version of FW that is on your existing system. You'll need to download the MS FW file to your PC and unpack the .zip file to reveal the FW file you'll be sending using web browser to the MS web page where there is a FW update feature there.
Most TVs don't need a huge bandwidth to work. I have found that Powerline Ethernet is good for that.
Powerline Networking | Powerline Ethernet | NETGEAR
If the mains circuit is OK, powerline ethernet is easier to set up and less flaky than wifi.
No need to go for Powerline with added WiFi.
Just another user with time on their hands.
