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Originally Posted by White Out 403
Ever since I started working from home, having reliable basement wifi is more important. It's pretty amazing how reliable the Orbi is at getting me handed off after 10 mins or so in the basement, so that I'm on a full 5g connection downstairs (connected to my basement satellite unit) with my base unit being on the opposite side of my house 2 floors up. It's incredible how far wifi tech has come.
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Which Orbi did you get? I picked up the RBK50 at Walmart a few days ago. It was on the clearance shelf for $250, and still being sold for $500 at Best Buy.
My house is about 2000 sq. ft. I have an Asus RT-68U right now that I had to move to the basement as I recently got Telus Fibre and it needed to go where the fibre was coming in. Before it was on the main floor and coverage was OK at that point. It's worse now as it's in the basement. I setup another 68U on the 2nd floor and currently using Aimesh. I'm using ethernet backhaul through powerline, which seems to be a little flaky. Even with the two routers, coverage pretty much dies in my garage.
Going to install the Orbi and see if it makes an imrovement.