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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.
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- Wired Ethernet seems to be one of the most wanted features from owners themselves on this form. This should be way up their to do list.
Anyway, ended up returning the orbi due to no WIRED backhaul. I hope they add it in for you guys down the road. I would have kept it if it had this feature.
Building out a Ubiquity Unify network instead If you add a wired backhaul to this router (especially with your competitors offering this feature in many cases already), I can see it easily becoming a go to solution for covering most homes. The connection speeds of the Orbi are great (and seem to be better than most of the competition) but there are some areas that due to blockage, interference, or simply distance, that having a wired connection option for the satellites would just make sense.
This is a significant drawback for the old brick building we have. Please add the wired satellite ASAP!
- To be competitive - Ethernet backhaul is required.
sorry but its nether less comptitive as its trounces all other mesh systems throughput wise and its not a significant draw back ether as its advertised as using wifi backhaul and it does that great , other mes systems need ethernet backhaul because the hop throughput is poor , however expectations of some that presumed it has ethernet backhaul just show how little homework or comparison they did before purchasing
- I am happy with a wifi backhaul but as you can tell from others - it's something that is required for them and competitors provide it. So if netgear is happy missing those customers - fine but the product will not be as successful. You cannot force solutions - the users will define what is required.
Like petey said, it is not something competitors have an advantage by having. Because anyone who did their research would know if they needed ethernet backhaul they did not need a eero, onhub, orbi etc... They would have known to buy a decent AP and not one of these consumer mesh products (not knocking these products but that is not what they are designed for, there are better options for that).
Where orbi excels is right where it needs to excel, namely with its wifi backhaul. This is the niche these products fill, not the I already have cat drops everywhere niche.
If you really have cat drops and the need for ethernet backhaul do yourself a favor and go look at some decent APs from somebody and not one of these mesh systems, and get what you need.
If every competition is offering it with lower hw specs than Orbi why can't Orbi offer it?
The Orbi like other routers will have the people who like it and these who hate it but like any router you need to make sure it fits your needs a backhaul to it act like access point may or may not change the orbi's performance since it has wireless backhaul look at other routers that do a million things compaired to a simple router the more functions not always a better preformance.
If the wired backhaul is slower then the wireless or the wireless signal is too weak for some reason would the Orbi still be a better deal then a normal router in access point mode ?
they could still offer it and leave it for the user if they wanted use it or not acknowledging any limitations it may cause, still no explanation why not offerythe feature every competitor is. how fast or slow the wired backhaul will be is a different argument just offer it the Orbi is a powerful machine with specs that can easily accomodate the feature.
