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Aspirant

Jan 23, 2021

Ive an Ax12 Rax200 - want to add an extender. AX6000, AX8, EAX80 or RBK850?

Afternoon all, some advise please if i may, ive found one other thread on here about an rax200 asking about an extender but is not the same as this question. Should this of been asked already, ...

plemans

Guru - Experienced User

Jan 25, 2021

AX6000 is a speed.

The one's I'd recommend?

for AC devices: I'd recommend the tribands that have a dedicated backhaul. EX7500, EX7700, EX8000, RBS40v (has an extender mode)

For AX: EAX15, EAX20, EAX80 There isn't a triband extender (that I've seen) with a dedicated backhaul like the AC devices.

They're all mesh devices (in extender mode) so you should be able to roam without issues on all of them.

The EAX devices are AX but it doesn't mean they'll be the fastest. For example, the EX8000 uses a dedicated 1733mbps backhaul versus the EAX devices don't have a dedicated backhaul. so they have to share bandwidth between backhaul/fronthaul and that drops their speeds. Plus the EAX15/20 use a 1200mbps 5ghz link.

So the EX8000 would more than likely be faster than them (i haven't tested so can't 100% confirm).

Sphinx777

Aspirant

Feb 13, 2021

Hi

Can you give me some more info please.
I’ve got the orbi rbk81 modem now with the satellites. How do I put it behind my night hawk and get it to work together. Is the orbi plugged into the pan port of the night hawk? Or does it need to to go to the modem and night hawk from the orbi lan. Thanks

plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 14, 2021
You're trying to go?
Modem--->RAX200----->Orbi RBK850?
Is that correct?
If so, put the orbi system in access point mode to prevent a double nat.
The RAX200 won't "integrate" into the system as part of the mesh but it will work as a seperate ssid/network you can use. I usually use mine for IoT devices and for peak performance streaming (because it'll have faster peak speads when you're close to it)