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Is there any benefit to have a wired backhaul for an Orbi Mesh system?
Hello everyone, Apologize for the lengthy post in advance, but wanted to give some background first. Product: 1 wireless RBR750 router, 2 satellites RBS750 Home Size: 2 story, 4100 sq ft Cu...
donawalt - thank you for the tips and insights! Very helpful! Which free Wifi analyzer do you think is best? I think I have an app I downloaded a while back but it's really hard to use and not intuitive.
As an update, I installed MoCA to my current network yesterday, really so I can create a wired backhaul to my 2 Orbi mesh satellites. Connecting directly to the satellites themselves using an ethernet cable, I get roughly 815-915 Mbps down / 22-23 up speeds on my 800/20 Xfinity plan.
From a Wifi standpoint, I get roughly 750-800 Mbps when I'm 15 ft away from a satellite. Prior to the MoCA install, I was getting 650-675 Mbps on average when I'm 15 ft away. It seems having MoCA serving as a wired backhaul helps, though it's not a true ethernet connection.
Thanks for letting us know. Sounds like MoCa is the way to go for those that don't have in wall ethernet support. Good to know. Glad it's working. Please mark your thread as solved so others will know. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/000062080/How-do-I-back-up-the-configuration-settings-on-my-Orbi-WiFi-System
Enjoy. 📡
Thanks Furry. The only thing that's outstanding for me is that with the introduction of MoCA in my network setup, I had to add 2 splitters which increased my cable modem upstream power levels - they're right now sitting at around 50-51 dbmV. Before I installed MoCA, upstream power was ranging around 48-49 dbmV.
With my MocA setup, I haven't yet experienced internet drops or connectivity issues despite the higher upstream levels. Even so, I feel the power levels are really at the top acceptable threshold and any random blip may cause a disconnection. Since I need to use splitters, are there splitters that are lower loss than others that still are MocA compatible frequency-wise?
I've attached a schematic so you can visualize my setup and splitter output terminal db loss.
unioncorps On the Mac I find WiFiExplorer Lite (free) gives a lot of nice tabular data, as well as a graph below the table. The tabbed data lets you really analyze power level for example - it's 83% vs. 69% over there, which could be hard to see in a graph. It has a graph too. I like the graph on iAnalyzeWiFi (free) a little better as it's bigger - you need something broad-brushed as you are walking around the house. You can fine tune later. Both allow segregating the output to only 2.4 or 5.0 networks which is useful. So if I had to pick one it would probably be WiFiExplorer, although since they are free no issue having both and seeing what you like!
Please post a copy and paste of the modems connection status and event log page.
https://kb.netgear.com/30007/How-do-I-obtain-the-cable-connection-information-from-a-NETGEAR-cable-modem-modem-router
https://kb.netgear.com/30008/How-do-I-view-or-clear-the-event-logs-on-my-NETGEAR-cable-modem-or-modem-routerPower specs for CM series modems:
https://kb.netgear.com/24311/Power-level-guidelines-for-a-NETGEAR-cable-modem-router
Furry, I've been trying to reply back to your response but for some reason my post isn't showing up. I've tried about 5 times now; I initially see my post then once I refresh it's gone.
