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Maximum number of satellites for AX1800 (MK64)
What is maximum number of satellites for AX1800 (MK64)? thank you.
Hello kayton,
We recommend up to 3 satellites but we have received positive feedback from others that they've been able to add more.
Christian
I am trying to cover a 7000 square foot house, very spread out. We need WiFi6. Should I use Orbi or Nighthawk? There are internal cinderblock walls so I will need lots of nodes. What do you recommend? What is the max number of nodes and max number of daisy-chains that you recommend
7000sqft is a large home. And cinderblocks do an amazing job of blocking wifi. (literally one of the best materials at blocking wifi)
You're best option would be to find a way to hardwire in the satellites either using ethernet, powerline, or moca adapters (ethernet over coax). If you could hardwire them in, then a dual band system would be fine because they'd have a hardwired backhaul.
But if its not an option, I'd at minimum be looking at the triband orbi's. They have a dedicated wireless backhaul. Again, the cinderblock is still going to impede that a bit but its going to tolerate it better than a dual band system.
We have ethernet jacks in every room, so we can do a hardwired backhaul. But we're worried about getting WiFi coverage in every room. We want to use a mesh instead of a series of WiFi access points so we can seamlessly move from one room to another. What is the max number of satellite nodes we can run? Max number of daisy-chained satellites?
If you have jacks in every room, you're a head of the game. you can probably run quite a few more satellites that way. You usually see a drop off in performance with more satellites because they have to use their wireless backhaul but if you're running wired, you shouldn't see the same dropoff. I know I've used up to 5 satellites with 4 of them using a wired backhaul without any issues. I've seen users on here using up to 8 but I've never done it myself.
