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Wired Connection to Satellite
Is it possible to use Ethernet to connect router and satellites?
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.
This link is for the discussion for requesting wired backhaul, please let your opinion and voice count for the wired backhaul idea:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/Netgear-Orbi-Wired-Sattelite/idi-p/1145210
Too little to late for me. I returned the Orbi due to lack of wired backhaul. I would have kept it if it had it. Assumed from the getgo that it had the feature since its so basic, and all other compatition has it. Also including mutiple ethernet ports gave me the faslse belief.
Going with another system with this feature.
