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Outdoor coverage with Orbi RBS760
I've just installed an Orbi RBS760 system in my house with 4 satellites. I want to get wifi in my back garden but am not sure what product to add. It looks like the WAX610Y is Netgear's only o...
3 satellites are hard wired to the router - 1 downstairs in kitchen suspended ceiling, 1 downstairs in a TV cupboard and 1 in the attic. The 4th is now connected wirelessly and on a bedroom window at the back of the house pointing to the garden. It has definitely improved the wifi in the garden but it's just okay. We have a need to get a wifi signal to the back of the garden - approximately 60 feet from the back of the house. Is that distance unrealistic without an extender?
Thanks, APD
The more material a WiFi signal must pass through, the more the signal is reduced. It's physics. Orbi units are clearly designed to "blend in" typical environments. (no ugly antennas sticking in all directions). Guessing that the attic is occupied?
There is a difference between signal strength and performance.
- Signal strength is affected by the distance/materials for the connection between satellite and user device. In open air, 60 ft. might be "ok". (Can you temporarily open the window and see what difference it makes?)
- Performance involves how the internet connection gets from the router to the satellite. Does the WiFi connection to that satellite in the window link it with the router, or with one of the wired satellites?
This is also affected by what user devices out at the end of the garden will be doing. Getting alerted to email and processing messages or surfing the web, for example, doesn't require much bandwidth. Even streaming a 4K video (for "movie night in the garden" requires only 25Mbps. A 2.4G connection might be perfectly acceptable.
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