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New Home - first house - need mesh help
Need advice for my new house! Hi, I just moved to our first house. It has 6 small floors (« half floors », like in zigzag) The provided router is in the basement, lowest floor, in t...
Hi,
I have an older Orbi mesh, Orbi RBK23 with 3 satellites in my home, but it is a house with thick brick walls and many separate floors. I feel like the satellites struggle to communicate well and I lose a lot of internet speed.
Would a Orbi770 with wifi 7 improve things?
If I were to buy an Orbi 770 with 2 satellites, can I combine those with my current satellites or mesh network? To have bigger coverage? Or would the Orbi770 render my old ones useless?
How could I improve current setup (attached)
Thanks
I have an older Orbi mesh, Orbi RBK23 with 3 satellites in my home, but it is a house with thick brick walls and many separate floors. I feel like the satellites struggle to communicate well and I lose a lot of internet speed.
Would a Orbi770 with wifi 7 improve things?
If I were to buy an Orbi 770 with 2 satellites, can I combine those with my current satellites or mesh network? To have bigger coverage? Or would the Orbi770 render my old ones useless?
How could I improve current setup (attached)
Thanks
Your best bet?
hardwire in all the satellite and pickup some of the old AC (RBS20/40) satellites and add them.
Unless you're paying for multigig speeds, the older AC mesh system is pretty solid. And your cement/brick walls doing a fantastic job of blocking wifi. Investing in ensuring an ethernet connection in each room you want coverage and picking up an older/used satellite will probably perform better than buying a $2k kit that's still running off wireless that gets blocked.
Invest in that early and then when you need to upgrade for increased wireless speeds, you've already done the hard work. With a wired backhaul the 770 series would perform very similar to the 970 series.