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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.
I would love, love to have the Satellites connect back to the router via hard wiring. I have a new, tall, long skinny house, with minimal structured wiring. My cable modem is down in a small basement. The Satellites are in the upper floors. I want to have my Sat's connect back to the router via the wiring I do have, so I can place them at each of the two end of the house. This would allow me to leverage the benefits of Orbi wifi, namely seamless wifi coverage for all my mobile devices no matter where in the house we roam. I placed them in the idea locations for wifi coverge, but then the connections back to the router were flakey. I moved the Sattelites closer to the center of the house to get the router connection to be more stable, but now I have less wifi coverage for my devices