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RBR850 with 2 satellites - looking to extend to a separate building
Hi,
I have an ORBI RBR850 with 2 satellites. I want to add wifi to a separate building next to the main house. I have ethernet connection to the building. Do in need to use another 850 satellite or can I use a different (cheaper) unit? What are the recommendations?
Thanks!
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Netgear has set up a community forum specifically for the Orbi AX (WiFi 6) products. Most of the people who watch that forum are more likely to have experience with Orbi AX and know how to work it better than those of us who follow this "general Orbi" forum. Might be more likely to find someone who has a solution if the question is posted there:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax
Please use this link to the main forum product list to review and choose where to make your posts.
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Thank you
Diamonds wrote:
I have an ORBI RBR850 with 2 satellites. I want to add wifi to a separate building next to the main house. I have ethernet connection to the building. Do in need to use another 850 satellite or can I use a different (cheaper) unit? What are the recommendations?
It depends on what you want to achieve. You could use anything as a wireless access point in the other building, including one of the inexpensive "General WiFi Routers (Non-Nighthawk and Non-Orbi)" devices talked about around here. (There really is no need to dive off down a black hole into another section for general advice like this.)
If you do that you won't get the Mesh wifi connectivity. But that may not matter to you.
It is down to you to decide how much you want to spend and what sort of area you want to cover at the remote end of the network.
Thanks for your reply and please forgive my ignorance....
I don't necessarily need it to be in the mesh just that there is decent wifi.
My setup is feed cable into house, into service provider router that's on bridge mode, into RBR850, into switch. From there there's ethernet cabling to all rooms including the external house.
I have 2 RBS850 satellites and the reach doesn't get to the external house very well at all.
From your reply I can just get any wifi router hardwired in the external house, the fact that it ultimately goes through the Orbi doesn't matter - correct?
When you're in the external house it'll pick up that wifi and when you're in the main house it'll pick up the Orbi mesh network - correct?
thnaks again!
Diamonds wrote:
From your reply I can just get any wifi router hardwired in the external house, the fact that it ultimately goes through the Orbi doesn't matter - correct?
That should work. The connection from your external building is not involved in the wifi from the Orbi.
Have you checked that the LAN connection from the Orbi to the external building is OK?
