“Will there be better performance if the Orbi satellite is hard wired with ethernet cable to the Orbi router?”
Answer This Question
1-3 of 3 Answers
no, they are not designed to be connected via wires. The ORBIs will set up their own dedicated 5G connection in the background for communication. However, they do work best if each of the satellites can access the main ORBI directly. They can daisy chain if they are too far but that does have a minor affect on speed. This is basically not noticeable for the average user. The wired ports on the back of the device are there to provide wired connections to devices from the ORBI, not to another ORBI.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Unknown, all I can tell you is, that it works fantastic the way it’s set up by the Geek Squad guy.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hard-wiring the satellites would defeat the purpose of the system. The purpose of the mesh wi-fi network is to have a seamless wireless network without interruption and without any degradation in the signal strength. The old technology where you basically had a repeater, not only degraded the signal by 50% with every repeat but was also a different IP address; making things like a cellular phone call on the wi-fi network impossible as it would drop the call when it switched to a new IP address.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.