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Orbi to improve coverage?
My house is 2650 square feet and is one level. My R7000 is about 1/3 back from the front of the house and 2/5 from the right of the house. I have a poor signal in the room at the right back of the hou...
My R7000 can not touch the back corners of the house. Either direction, it has to penetrate a bathroom and/or utility room. My house is much longer than it is deep. if I have the plugin Orbi on either end and a smaller Orbi router, maybe it would be good. I would have 30-40 feet distance between each satellite and main router. The two satellites would be 100 feet apart.
I also want my full speed internet in those back corners, so just having a signal is not good enough.
I could put the Orbi more centered since I have Ethernet in our living room area. I will try my router in that location. That will give me more information to figure it out. Maybe a more powerful router is a better option.
I also want my full speed internet in those back corners, so just having a signal is not good enough.
I could put the Orbi more centered since I have Ethernet in our living room area. I will try my router in that location. That will give me more information to figure it out. Maybe a more powerful router is a better option.
I was not successful making the R7000 an access point, because I do not have a second router. I did find that I do get 100 Mbps in my back two rooms with just the R7000. I want to get closer to 200 Mbps all through the house and may go up to 400 Mbps service.
The R7000 needs a primary host router to connect to when in AP mode.
The R7000 may not have the power or range to reach remote locations. Either adding a extender or installing a Orbi system would be options to review.
mwhalswrote:
I was not successful making the R7000 an access point, because I do not have a second router. I did find that I do get 100 Mbps in my back two rooms with just the R7000. I want to get closer to 200 Mbps all through the house and may go up to 400 Mbps service.- I am going to look at Orbi systems tomorrow. I will keep the R7000 as a router and firewall. The Orbi would be set up as an access point.
I am not interested in 2 band extenders due to the speed penalty and separate SSID.well if you think about it, Orbi is kind of using two ssids, just depends on location and which closer signal your device will connected to. The router puts out a signal as well as the Satellite.
The Orbi will be good for your needs. I would disable the wifi on the R7000 router if your going to keep it as your main host router. Then connect the Orbi up in AP mode.
mwhalswrote:
I am going to look at Orbi systems tomorrow. I will keep the R7000 as a router and firewall. The Orbi would be set up as an access point.
I am not interested in 2 band extenders due to the speed penalty and separate SSID.
