Netgear Orbi - Wired Sattelite

Seems like next to overall stability issues, this is one of the top requests.  Is there some HW limitation that prevents ethernet backhaul or is it just dev time. 

I would like to see this as an option, as I have wire pulled to a guest house - where I would like to put a sattelite that is part of the same network for seamless roaming. So the setup would be one main router, one sattelite over wired ethernet backhaul, and one additional sattelite using the standard wireless backhaul. Would be awesome if that would be possible, as the wireless backhaul cannot reach the guest house.

you get away with it may be if you could set up two routers as a repeater and the other as access point from you say the wifi signals should not see the other and connect them by your wired Ethernet back cable may not the fastest sppeds but may work. The repeater could transmit the home wifi to the guest house over the wired lan cable  and the access point could turn back into wifi a strange way to do it but may work.

I think is room for a Orbi design device combined with lan over power. An Orbi mesh router but it plugs in to a outlet on the wall with color changing leds acts like a night light to light up the floor in dark  or set a mood in the room and connects the mesh router to a control point or even a master mesh router which the others answer to by  lan over power.

I was just about to purchase a set of Orbi and I assumed the ethernet backhaul would be a standard feature. Thought I best check as it was not mentioned anywhere and I stumled across the community. I think I will have to look at something else.

I would prefer to have the backhaul over my ethernet as I want the two points at opposite ends of the house and I don't want APs as they do not appear to be as easy to setup and the roaming between them may be an issue.

I honestly could not believe it for a second when I found out that it did not not support this function.

I cannot believe they didn't add it either. If they had, I'd be using the Orbi I purchased right now. Unfortunately, it totally didn't pan out in the different locations I placed it. I got 100-150 Mbps via Speedtest.net in the remote locations via the satellites, which was better than the Asus I had but I wanted max speed at the satellite locations as well as near the main router.

I ended up going with a Linksys EA9500 router with two RE7000 AP (which support ethernet backhaul) and their seamless routing capability, and it works perfectly. Just set it up following their instructions and use the same SSID and you are golden. I have over 400 Mbps download speeds throughout my house (upstairs, downstairs, outside) via Speedtest.net.

I agree that products like the Orbi and other mesh type system will work in the right home but each has it's set of limits. This can not be help in their design you must have a radio link between stations and a 2.4 ghz with a 5ghz band plus the electronics and antennas. All this takes processing time on each device that slows down the whole system and limits their range. 

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.

Can't any more noticeable this router

Ethernet backhaul is a very much desired and needed feature to remain competitive with similar offering out there.