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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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Seriously, how did this product make it to market without ethernet backhaul?
Seems like a required feature for Minimum Viable Product to me.
I believe the people who design it wanted to true wired free option but forget that there needs to be back connection path if the wifi does not work in one area as anyone who tried to set there own router and get the best possible coverage knows no house or apartment is the same. Great on paper but always does not work in the real world.
But I also believe that backhaul is maybe in works the version issue of the Orbi so other then a firmware patch for this current issue of the Orbi no real hardware ready answer is possible they have to rewrite the codes that control the ports and I am sure the first issue would be a buggy.
Another way would to add the link in the form of a power lan adopter feature made rite in the Orbi sure the power supply would have to live in the router but with enough shielding the power supply and router electronics it would work Apple does it the question how much rf noise would the switch mode power supply make normally a think plastic shield with metalize firm is on must power supplies in of equipement.
Luma does, I just set a 3 node system at a friends business. Works really well.
I just bought an Orbi AC3000 3 pack from Costco thinking it would allow wired backhaul. Now coming to find out it doesn’t, I will be returning it for the Linksys Velop. If netgear releases an update that included this feature they would certainly get me back as a customer. I can’t believe that this feature rich mesh system is missing the most
obvious of all features. please fix this netgear!
Still boggles my mind why someone wouldn't just buy much cheaper AP's if they are gonna rely on wired backhaul. I think people just need something to complain about to be honest. Ooh that product has it and this doesn't so this one must have it too. Never mind that if you actually were going to be using wired backhaul you'd be better off with something else anyway.... I really hope you end up getting wired backhaul for your Orbi so you can go ," oooo I have wired backhaul now just like devices designed for wired back haul, but I paid 3 times as much!"
- Dan_H can you name some devices please? My requirements are: 3 Ethernet ports minimum per device 1 management utility for all devices Can provide wireless connection to outbuilding Not ugly Help would be appreciated?
Well morallydubious I'm not seeing that on the velop or eero, so I must be missing it....I mean all I see is people bashing Orbi for no wired back haul, but those competitors don't seem to meet your requirements either. Than again probably because someone needing 3 Ethernet ports per wireless AP is not exactly something 99.9999999999999999999% of people are going to have a use for. Than again I can totally get why someone would want to wire a wireless AP up just so they can also WIRE clients to it, that sounds so much more cost effective than you know using a $20 switch......but hey I'm bad at math so who knows.
Please understand I'm just joking around being sarcastic man, not trying to fight with ya. It's just a router nothing that defines either of us.
Dan_H I understand morallydubious.
Orbi looks like a complete, easy and reliable solution.
Other AP’s don’t look easy to me to install and configure. Which other brand brings me the fastest and reliable wifi in my house, without the need of technical knowledge about Routers and networking?
Orbi presents their solution as plug-and-play. Various tests and reviews also claim Orbi as the best (fast and reliable) Wifi available.
But in my house a wireless backhaul probably won’t work. I have cat6 cables to the 2nd floor already in place.
Orbi with wired backhaul sounds like a perfect solution
- Dan_H sorry I took your instant dismissal of the largest feature request on this forum to mean you did actually have viable alternatives. Some client devices are perfectly fine on wireless some need wired. I have a lot of devices and the addition of switches in several rooms would not go down well with the missus. Everyone has different use cases for almost everything you can buy. It used to be good business sense that if enough people wanted to throw money at you to build something you built it.
morallydubious I didn't realize that running wire to an $400 ap to run wire to a client was a feature a lot of people were clamoring for. But apparently spending $380 more to look at an oversized air freshener over a small $20 switch you can hide anywhere makes the missus happy, whatever it takes I guess. If however you just meant wired backhaul, well like I said there are a plethora of alternatives that offfer APs with wired backhaul.
