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RAX200 + Orbi best practice
I currently own a RAX200 for my one bedroom apartment. It's amazing. I just bought a 5 bedroom house (2300 sqft) and have CAT6 run to every room. Sonic Fiber Modem is in garage. I have 9 ethernet...
I'd first just try it out with the RAX200. It has surprising range/capabilities.
Just centrally locate it in the home.
If it doesn't work, Then i'd go:
modem---rax200------mesh setup in AP mode
I would but the RAX200 will be in garage as that’s where all my ethernet jacks terminate. So I’ll need a switch down there and a router before the switch. I guess I could get a cheaper wired only router, but I like the idea of having RAX200 be the main brain of whole network.
You sure can do it.
I ran it that way for a while
I had a CM1100----->rax200----->orbi rbk53 system
the orbi system was ran in AP mode. The only other thing I made sure that I did was my satellites that were connected via wired backhaul, connected directly to the rbr50 and not through the rax200 then rbr50
Thank you. This is exactly the type of info I was looking for. Very helpful. I am also considering the Nighthawk Mesh WiFi 6 system - I know it's not TriBand, but might be all I need for extra coverage to rest of house. Most of my devices will be hardwired via Gigabit lines anyway. Orbi might be overkill. I assume with the Nighthawk Mesh the idea is exactly the same, run the main in AP, and then chain the Satallites to it. Although there aren't enougn ports on the Nighthawk to backhaul each one via wrired. hmmm...
running them with the wired backhaul is ideal since its just the dual band system. A cheap gigabit switch would fix the port issue.