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Orbi RBR350 + 2 satellites internet speed question
Hi! I use a RBR350 Orbi connected to 2 RBS350 satellites in my house with 2 floors. There is a big concrete wall in the middle of the house. So basically, the router and the RBR350 are downstairs, ...
o you think it's also the mesh backhaul that gives me around 300 Mb/s with the first satellite (first room) and around 150 Mb/s with the second satellite (second room) in the attic?
The RBR delivers 500 mbps, the two RBS deliver 180-300 when connecting to their LAN ports.
That difference has to be due to the backhaul, it's the only wireless link on the path.
Well in that case, we wouldn't need the Orbi anymore, we could just run the cables between the router and our laptops.
Of course you could do that, but if you want to improve the wifi speed throughout the house, you'd want to keep the RBS in place.
Maybe a stupid remark: but why not just link the router to the laptops directly with powerline adapters then, instead of using the Orbi?
Again, you could. I doubt you'll get much performance gain over what you have now. The conversion rate for a good powerline link is about 30% of the powerline link speed. With AV2 powerline, that works out to 300 mbps. And you might not get nearly that much - it depends on the wiring. You'd be sharing the powerline bandwidth across the two rooms (as you are sharing the wireless backhaul now).
The net here is that you are aiming for higher performance than powerline can deliver.
I tried it and the whole sytem went berserk. I had to reset everything. Because the RBR and RBS N°1 are not daisychain, it just can't work that way, right?
The wireless backhaul can set up as a daisy chain topology: rbr->rbs->rbs. My own system has sometimes done that.
Anyway, since the direct ethernet connection didn't work, that rules that approach out.