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Other mesh networks such as Eero and soon Luma support hard wiring your sattelites. I think its extremely important Netgear Orbi does the same. Especially for those of us who can.
Why wouldn't you allow the sattelite to connect via ethernet instead of wireless? It seems like an obvious function to me.
I also have an ethernet connection that goes from the basement to upstairs, through concrete floors and the opposite side of the house, so it would make more sense for the most throughput for the sattelite to use ethernet instead of wireless so it can then broadcast the equivalent strong signal upstairs that the downstairs will have.
My question is whether the ethernet backhaul support could be added in the future via a software update? If not, then that will probably eliminate me trying the Orbi.
Thanks.