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Wired Connection to Satellite
Is it possible to use Ethernet to connect router and satellites?
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That would be a great feature and if it freed up the third 5ghz band for a true 3 band router with smart connect that would be even better.
I would also like this feature, especially since I currently have a second Nighthawk as my access point. I will be putting the Satellite in the same spot, seems silly not to hard-wire it.
This is great to hear. I am building a house and need my wireless running in the next two weeks. I'm planning on using a Cisco router with VPN , but want a good solution for multiple WAPs around the house. I have wired connections in various logical places for WAPs.
In terms of speed and connectivity wired>wireless, ALWAYS.
Meraki had a really terrific mesh product many years ago that these companies should just mimic. It was beautiful--cloud managed, wired/wireless backhaul, poe capable, seamless (and I mean drop only one ping seamless) roaming between aps. You can still buy the products if you can find them. They were only g though, so they can't support today's faster Internet speeds.
Hi All,
I created an idea for this, please upvote so netgear will add in a software update.
- Still waiting on wired backhaul for the satellites. I get decent Wifi coverage with the Orbi but have issues getting connection for the backhaul band where I already have wired drops. Makes zero sense not to support both mixed wired and wireless backhaul. This should have been in the design specs day one.
powrby4d wrote:
Still waiting on wired backhaul for the satellites. I get decent Wifi coverage with the Orbi but have issues getting connection for the backhaul band where I already have wired drops. Makes zero sense not to support both mixed wired and wireless backhaul. This should have been in the design specs day one.think you will be waiting a long time as you may only see ethernet backhaul if someone in the 3rd party fw world takes intrest in the orbi system as a project and is willing to develope an open source project and firmware for the orbi
however i wouldnt recommend the orbi to anyone that already has structured cabling anyway as there are better solutions designed to take advantage of the ethernet
Well that was the potential for Orbi to be convenient and flexible to place anywhere that it could be useful to do so, whether wired or wireless, with the distinct advantage that it did not look like an ugly access point with a bunch of cables in some rooms where it might matter, but it could extend the same network where performance is required but aesthetics may not matter. I think someone at Netgear dropped the ball without wired backhaul on the potential to bring together both markets for less technical and more technical customers, or at least the mix of aesthetics, flexibility, and performance all covered with one product line. And it's not like a selectable choice of wired or wireless backhaul is rocket science.
- I purchased this hot mesh expecting it to work.
It doesn't.
I purchased a very expensive wifi because I thought Netgear would provide versatility and workarounds in case one of the satellites met with interference.
It doesn't.
I sought help from its forums because I thought it would provide a useful explanation.
It doesn't.
I thought a large company could provide a response free of aloof and arrogant down talk.
It doesn't.
Does my money go to Netgear?
It doesn't.Can't disagree. I came to this forum to find out when my requirements would be met by the product which was designed with a feature present in every other router, switch, and AP crippled.
I got the same as you - some clown who apparently has never installed networks in the real world telling me that my requirements for a combination wired / wireless network were just not valid because they don't fit the brilliance of the Orbi crippled design. (It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE that we stupid people just don't appreciate!) Not to mention telling people what is or is not too expensive for them.
powrby4d wrote:Can't disagree. I came to this forum to find out when my requirements would be met by the product which was designed with a feature present in every other router, switch, and AP crippled.
I got the same as you - some clown who apparently has never installed networks in the real world telling me that my requirements for a combination wired / wireless network were just not valid because they don't fit the brilliance of the Orbi crippled design. (It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE that we stupid people just don't appreciate!) Not to mention telling people what is or is not too expensive for them.
Apple people behave the same way...I blame them...lol.
Jmmelgaard,
You do realize that this is a publicly accessed community forum and that the "aloof and arrogant down talk" was provided to you by a fellow forum user and not a Netgear employee?
- I'm not too smart.
The company provides the forum to save on long distance calls to India.
Call me the MissingLinksys.So you think everybody but you is a Netgear employee?
The company provides the forum. The company is responsible for my customer experience.
Thanks to those who actually provide solutions. All others need not participate.
- Please add this wired backhaul feature. It's stopping me from buying the orbi!
It's silly not to have this feature since all the competition has it.the is no specific competition for orbi as its not a mesh system
ethernet backhaul has been mentioned over and over and i think ether the dev's are keeping it under their hats or they have made the decision not to have ethernet backhaul because it was never a feature they considered and still dont consider it needed for the coustomer base they arer aiming at
it would be good if netgear came out and made a stand on this one way or the other , even if just to stop ongoing commentary on this feature
Even though Orbi is not actually mesh system, Netgear still markets the Orbi as a mesh wifi solution. Thus its specific competition is all the other Mesh systems, and is always reviewed against them. All these other mesh devices support the wired backhaul feature.
It also seems to be the most requested feature, as there is lots of talk about it here and other posts.
Finally, its pointless to have a 4 port switch on the back if not usuing the full ability of a wired network. Simply buying a switch and plugging devices into that would be a better idea.
