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Wired Backhaul
My refund period for my Orbi is about to expire. Can a moderator comment (hopefully a NetGear Employee) as to when/if we will get wired backhaul? If it is in the next six months, I will keep my Orb...
Nick,
Here's something I posted this morning on another thread for the same topic:
I've added Ethernet Backhaul into my list of Candidate Features for a future Firmware update. I can't yet commit to a delivery date, but wanted to acknowledge that this is a valid use case and something we're looking seriously at.
Orbi Product Management
I've measured the following data throughput using iperf between two clients on the internal network:
1. Between wired devices on either the Orbi Sat or Router--940 Mbps (full gigabit switch speeds)
2. Between wired devices across the Orbi backhaul--575 Mbs
My WiFi throughput between a wireless and a wired client is 225 Mbps, but this is limited by my clients, which are 802.11n 2x2 with a 300 Mbps connection speed. A 3x3 ac client would be faster.
Those are decent numbers, much better than eero and I suspect the Orbi wireless backhaul is faster than the eero wired backhaul. That being said, I can probably live with the wireless backhaul feature for now. I was waiting as long as possible befor returning it (04/21), but these stats are very positive.
We are capped at 300 Mbps here - no gigibit fiber in our area - yet.
Thanks!