Let me rephrase the question. I live in a house with old plaster walls with 5 layer of lathe in each wall that makes wireless signal transmission quite difficult. I currently have Orbi RBR50 router & satellite. In order to have everything on same network (ROKU downstairs), router is downstairs. I have a hard wire running to upstairs office (front of house). In order to increase signal strength, could I connect this hard wire as input to upstairs satellite (which port to use for input, do I need to reporgram it?). Would this increase signal strength? I'm expanding the system to reach a back house and want to put another satellite (which I have ordered) in the back of the house to provide a signal to backhouse above the garage. Is there a signal strength advantage to running another wire from upstairs 1st satellite to back of the house and connecting second satellite by hard wire (if so, what port do I plug input into, do I need to reporgram it?). Or am I just as well off letting the wireless do it's thing?
Can a satellite just be plugged into the network rather than daisy-chained b/c I have an existing network port upstairs back of house.
I have a hard wire running to upstairs office (front of house). In order to increase signal strength, could I connect this hard wire as input to upstairs satellite (which port to use for input, do I need to reporgram it?). Would this increase signal strength? I'm expanding the system to reach a back house and want to put another satellite (which I have ordered) in the back of the house to provide a signal to backhouse above the garage. Is there a signal strength advantage to running another wire from upstairs 1st satellite to back of the house and connecting second satellite by hard wire (if so, what port do I plug input into, do I need to reporgram it?).
Yes, connecting the satellite and router with ethernet cable is far superior to using the WiFi backhaul. This will not affect the "user facing" WiFi signals at all, but will provide better throughput than the WiFi backhaul. And, yes, using ethernet to connect the new satellite to the first one will do the same. Any of the satellite LAN ports can be used. This Netgear article describes some of the ways etherent backhaul can be done:
Connecting the new satellite directly to the router using existing ethernet wiring would be a better solution as it avoids a "hop" in the backhaul path.
Whether a satellite at the back of the building will adequately provide WiFi to rooms above the garage is another question. I would relocate the existing satellite to the back of the house (temporarily) using that ethernet cable and then see what the WiFi signal is like above the garage.
Let me rephrase the question. I live in a house with old plaster walls with 5 layer of lathe in each wall that makes wireless signal transmission quite difficult. I currently have Orbi RBR50 router & satellite. In order to have everything on same network (ROKU downstairs), router is downstairs. I have a hard wire running to upstairs office (front of house). In order to increase signal strength, could I connect this hard wire as input to upstairs satellite (which port to use for input, do I need to reporgram it?). Would this increase signal strength? I'm expanding the system to reach a back house and want to put another satellite (which I have ordered) in the back of the house to provide a signal to backhouse above the garage. Is there a signal strength advantage to running another wire from upstairs 1st satellite to back of the house and connecting second satellite by hard wire (if so, what port do I plug input into, do I need to reporgram it?). Or am I just as well off letting the wireless do it's thing?
Can a satellite just be plugged into the network rather than daisy-chained b/c I have an existing network port upstairs back of house.
