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Netgear Orbi 370
Couple questions that hopefully are easy to answer (I'll give context first), I'm looking to revamp my home network system, i currently use my ISP router which while its good doesn't cover the whole house. I have tried the mesh wifi systems wirelessly but due to the age and size of the house they just don't work here. Fortunately when we bought the house we had it rewired with cat6 cable to every room. We get just shy of 1GB up and 500 down and while i know its not necessary i would like to be able to get this speed or close too throughout the house. 1st question, if I was to buy 6 of the Netgear Orbi 370 series would i be able to hard wire them all back to the router so they work as a mesh system just wired? 2nd question which i may already know the answer to this, can these be powered over PoE or do you have to use the DC cable to power them. 3rd question I want to change the router would I be best to buy a Netgear router that goes to the switch in my house then back out to all the access points or could i just use one of the orbies then go to the switch then to the remaining access point?Port forwarding with Comcast
I am putting my Comcast XB7 modem/router in to bridge mode and connecting to an Orbi 370 I am doing this to avoid the Comcast router not doing port forwarding even though I set that up in the Xfinity app The XB7 has several Ethernet ports. I have one that goes to a Verizon micro-cell and another that goes to some old vintage commercial computers. So I want to put a simple Net Gear switch at the main Orbi's Ethernet port. Is that going to be a problem? I need the three Orbis to be upstairs, so I have a long cat 5 to the vintage equipment in the basement. So 1) Is there any issue anyone is aware of to put in a port forward to ports 22 and 23 with a switch in-line? 2) Can I have one vintage computer be port forwarded to via two different ports? 3) Is anyone aware of Comcast "features" such as their "advanced security" getting in the way of this?Orbi 370 Satellite Speed is bad
I thought I was upgrading from my RBR50 and 1 satellite that died by getting the Orbi 370 and 1 satellite. Wow was I wrong. I have 500 speed fiber. Wireless that sees the router gets great speed, same as my old RBR50. The satellite barely breaks 150 up and down. The RBR50 satellite would push at least 350 or more. The router and satellite are in the same exact locations in my house as the RBR50 was. I did the install by the book and made no changes to the basic or advanced settings. Is the 370 just an inferior product? Are there settings I should change to get back to the speeds I had with the RBR50 satellite? If this can't be resolved easily. I'm returning the 370 and tring another brand mesh systemConfused by legacy network extenders still connecting
hi would appreciate some advice I am UK based, with vodafone fibre 500 connection. Recently purchased orbi 370 with 1 base unit and 2 satalites to replace the vodafone default router and vodafone extender With the default set up my SSID was vodafoneXXXXXX and for devices connected to the extender it was the same vodafoneXXXXXX_EXT (with the _EXT being additional). It was a true extender and not a mesh system as i had to manually set devices to either the main router or the extender (albeit they shared the same password). Vodafone also offer 5G back and the SSID vodafoneXXXXXXX_5GEXT also used to appear on my selectable networks albeit i never connected anything to it So this weekend i installed by new Orbi 370 set up, using the wizard on the app. All pretty straightforward i followed the instructions and used the previous vodafone SSID and password to save having to reset all my devices. Everything went seamlessly the only tricky items were 2X desktop PC's which detected the change somehow and i just had to re-enter the password to rejoin. Now what is really strange is that despite the old vodafone router and extender being unplugged and in a cupboard the SSID's vodafoneXXXXXX_EXT and vodafoneXXXXX_5GEXT are still appearing on the networks list as joinable on multiple devices (computers, phones, consoles etc.) Stranger still is that many devices are default connecting to _EXT despite this extender not being there..... and even more strange is that when i force devices off _EXT and onto the 'main' network they keep disconnecting. This computer I am typing on now connected by default to _EXT this morning. I forced it to forget the _EXT network and join the vodafoneXXXXX network which is does for a bit but then drops connection and asks for the password again. After multiple attempts to join vodafoneXXXXXX I have given up now and reconnected to vodafoneXXXXXX_EXT and the connection is solid. So bizarre Interestingly when the PC is connected to vodafoneXXXXXX it is at 5GHz, when connected to vodafoneXXXXXX_EXT it is at 2.4Ghz Other than this strange issue with the computer needing to be connected to _EXT everything seems to be working OK its just bizarre that the _EXT network is still visible and connectable Can anyone explain what is going on?
