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Warlord888
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Nov 06, 2020
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Help Please... Wifi 6 with 4G Lte Failover

Hello all,   My smarthome is expanding and now my existing Nighthawk X10 R9000 is failing to keep up, unfortunately.   I've done the Netgear "Find my Orbi Router" questions...   It appears I ne...
  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Nov 06, 2020

    Something that isn't suported on Orbi systems or most any home class router. 

    Failover is mainly for business or enterprise class environments. You'll need to check into one of these classes for failover features.

     

    Good Luck. 

Warlord888's avatar
Warlord888
Aspirant
Nov 06, 2020
FURRYe38 wrote:

"The satellites would most likely be no more than 20 feet apart from each other." RBS need to be out 30 feet or more. The wifi signal on Orbi systems are fairly powerful. Any closer and this causes problems on the system. 

Ok, so do you know if there is a less powerful router that can handle Wifi 6 and the amount of devices we have?

 

Or would it just be better to have a 1 satellite setup positioned 30 feet away on the lower floor

 

EDIT:  I found a comment on Google that suggested:-

 

"The router and satellite should be at least 30 feet apart. If you can't get them further apart, go to "Advanced > Advanced Setup > Wireless Setting" on the router, where you can try lowering the Transmit power on both bands."

 

Is this above statement true?