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RBK53 placement
We have a 3-floor house plus a 1-room attic. The modem is on the 2nd floor on one end and is the heart of most of our activity. The attic is my office so it is a critical location as well, but is o...
The system will daisy chain. So why not try a sat on the second floor 45 feet away from your router. Then another sat in your attic near your office?
after you try that you can make changes as required.
Thanks for the help and suggestion. I don't think that will cover my basement though as all the Orbi units would be 2 floors above.
I didn't realize they would daisy chain. The instructions show the router in the middle and say all satellites need to be ideally 40 ft from the router. If that is not accurate and they do daisy chain, I have more flexibility than I realized.
In the last firmware 2.18 daisy chain is enabled. It works in my system.
So try placements that make sense to you .