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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.
No problem. I spent way too long looking for alternatives and testing them all out. :) I bought my Orbi system from Costco, which came with 2 satellites and that was the setup I was hoping for. But, even with the dedicated channel, the speeds just weren't great through floors and other obstacles. Nothing can compete with good old cable.
The lack of ports isn't a huge downfall since you can essentially have your CAT6 coming from the wall into a switch, and then have one of the cables out of the switch to the Linksys AP. That's how I have it setup as I have other devices like Wii, Receiver, Slingbox wired to the switch. It is another device though, which is a negative. While the Linksys APs are also nothing to show off, they also aren't as gigantic as the Orbi satellites were.