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ECSddi's avatar
ECSddi
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Aug 30, 2024

satellite capability. Orbi 960 Series AXE11000 Quad-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 6E

Howdy,

I just purchased the 9060 WiFi 6E, with two satellites.  Looking at the box, it states that the quad-band is like 5.0, 2.5 ...   but the last band says that it is wirelessly 5.0. 

I built a detached garage with 2.4 garage door openers and a 2.4 tesla charger.  I was hoping that by placing a satellite near the garage I could get wifi to these with a wireless satellite.  now I'm not sure. (yes I am tech challenged).

Will it work wirelessly, or do I have to wire from the router or a satellite to a garage satellite to get 2.4 in the garage? 

My other option:  place the orbi router near the front door hoping that it will reach the garage, and placing the satellites further inside the house.  not an easy solution but do-able.

My last option:  the internet cable comes into the garage first before the house.  There are two junctions, one at the front of the garage, one at the back.  would i be able to split the coax in the garage and put a seperate 2.4 router in the garage and still have a good signal on the other split to the Orbi in the house?  what is the best splitter?

oh  yeah,  my source is coax.  what is the best converter to ethernet now that i notice the orbi doesn't like coax.

 

Help,  M

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  • CrimpOn's avatar
    CrimpOn
    Guru
    Aug 30, 2024

    You have a number of options.

    • See if the router (or one of the satellites) creates a strong enough signal to connect these devices in the garage.  This depends a lot on how far the garage is and what the building materials are.
    • Place one of the satellites in the garage.  After powering it up, see if the LED on the front turns BLUE for 3 minutes.  If it does, then this satellite will provide WiFi to those devices (and any other WiFi device that is in or around the garage).  This is sort of an expensive solution considering how much satellites cost.  But, if the house can be covered by the router and one satellite, it might be acceptable.
    • If this does not work (satellite LED turns MAGENTA), than an relatively inexpensive solution is to use a pair of MoCA adapters to connect one of the router Ethernet LAN ports to the garage, where you can locate an inexpensive WiFi access point.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_over_Coax_Alliance