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I want to buy a Netgear Wi-Fi mesh system for use in a two storey, steel frame, concrete floor building about 60ft square. Internal walls are brick. It is a non-domestic building. Our phone/ broadba...
Eccleslad wrote:Thanks for your response. Two further questions from a non-techy.
1. Would there be any signal strength loss due to long ethernet cable connection? Due to satisfactory routing of the cables, cable length could be 20m.---thats fine. You can run up to 100m with proper ethernet cables.
2. The building in question has occasional public usage.. I was thinking about positioning the units above a grid suspended ceiling out of reach of tamperers. Is a separate power supply necessary or does ethernet cable provide power?-----the consumer orbi and most of the pro orbi's don't support power over ethernet. They need their own power supply There is 1 satellite in the pro version that does. its the SRC60.
Thanks for your response. Two further questions from a non-techy.
1. Would there be any signal strength loss due to long ethernet cable connection? Due to satisfactory routing of the cables, cable length could be 20m.
2. The building in question has occasional public usage.. I was thinking about positioning the units above a grid suspended ceiling out of reach of tamperers. Is a separate power supply necessary or does ethernet cable provide power?
Eccleslad wrote:Thanks for your response. Two further questions from a non-techy.
1. Would there be any signal strength loss due to long ethernet cable connection? Due to satisfactory routing of the cables, cable length could be 20m.---thats fine. You can run up to 100m with proper ethernet cables.
2. The building in question has occasional public usage.. I was thinking about positioning the units above a grid suspended ceiling out of reach of tamperers. Is a separate power supply necessary or does ethernet cable provide power?-----the consumer orbi and most of the pro orbi's don't support power over ethernet. They need their own power supply There is 1 satellite in the pro version that does. its the SRC60.