Can earlier model connect as Satlelites

[petcol01]

I currently have a

1. Telstra (Netgear) router, that I purely use to connect to them
1. Orbi RBR50 base stations
2. Orbi Satelite that came with it.

1.       Netgear switch for CAT-5 through out the house

Orbi 4G LTE AC2200 WiFi Router (LBR20)

Netgear AX1200 - Netgear Mesh Extender

So my Question is should I just keep buying the AX1200 or similar Mesh Extender or should I get something like the Orbi™ 960 which appears to come with two Satellites? 

Our Network provider is about to change so I guess so will Our connections speeds currently 100 MB package average speed vary but mostly 60 MB down and 5 mb up.

If I did that would the exiting units connect to it so the TBT50 connect as a Satellite ?

Any suggestions, I must say here that the NexGear's Sale Support is lacking in this advisery area.

[CrimpOn]

Some manufacturers designed their mesh WiFi systems where every unit could act either as the router (gateway to the internet) or as a satellite.  Netgear Orbi systems are not designed that way.  A 'router' can never function as a 'satellite'.

It appears from the original post, that there are two separate Orbi systems:

• The RBR50 and satellite, and
• The LBR20 LTE modem/router

Plus at least one WiFi extender (AX1200 is not a Netgear model number).

These two Orbi routers are entirely different:

• The RBR50 will connect to any typical Internet Service Provider (ISP) modem or optical fiber termination (ONT).
• The LBR20 connects to a telephone company LTE service.

Typical customers use one or the other.  (Very sophisticated customers deploy both in order to have redundant ISP connections. That does not appear to be the situation here.)

[petcol01]

Thanks understand that, disappointing thought.

Wondering then as I'm not really using the RBR50 as a router per say, as it connects to another device supplied by out provider as the Router / Modem for want of a better description using Ethernet the other device.

Or another suggestion is it purely won't work, could I swap out the RBR50 and replace as the base station the AXE11000 Mesh WiFi System (RBKE963B)
Orbi™ 960 as a base station would the existing Satelites connect to it or are they obsolete?

[CrimpOn]

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@petcol01 wrote:

would the existing Satellites connect to it or are they obsolete?

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Alas, no.  Netgear chose to design their mesh system where routers and satellites are not interchangeable.

This Netgear web site shows which satellites are compatible with each router:

https://kb.netgear.com/000065169/Which-Orbi-routers-and-satellites-are-compatible?article=000065169 

As the table shows, not only are the original 802.11ac satellites not compatible with the AX product routers, different models of AX systems are not compatible with each other.

Major bummer.