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<DIV>karl</DIV>
<DIV>excellent timing. I’m in the same boat, but haven’t pulled the </DIV>
<DIV>wallet out of my pocket yet. This may be the incentive I need.</DIV>
<DIV>I’m assuming you only need to hook up the base unit to ethernet </DIV>
<DIV>and the slave units get their signal over the air? (Pardon me, but
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<DIV>I’m a total klutz about electrons, etc.).</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Steve
Hammatt<BR>Mount Vernon WA USA</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=stearman809@gmail.com>Karl
Vacek</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 17, 2017 12:13 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=shop-talk@autox.team.net>shop-talk@autox.team.net</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Shop-talk] GOOD Wifi access point</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a">Epilogue…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a">After trying unsuccessfully to
bore a path to run a cable to the core of the house to position one strong wifi
access point, I just lived with the bad wifi for a couple of months. Then
Costco offered a special on the Netgear Orbi mesh wifi system with a base and
two satellites. Not cheap at $425 for a 3-unit setup, but reviews were
good overall and I bought it. I just set it up this morning, and so far
it’s great. I have a strong wifi signal all over the house and 50 feet
down the driveway, back yard, etc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a">Being a mesh system like Mike
Rambour’s Eero, it seems like it’s a pretty seamless connection when moving
around the house. The old system with a range extender confused some
phones and they’d need to be reconnected to wifi when switching from the base to
the extender, even though it looked like one network and wasn’t supposed to do
that.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a">The Orbi suffers no loss of
bandwidth to communications between the base and satellites either – they have a
third dedicated channel to do that backhaul, and promise to offer Ethernet cable
backhaul capability in a future firmware update. Not sure that’s going to
be necessary for me, but it’ll be an option. For now my wifi is fast and
strong wherever I need it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a">For now it looks like I’m a
happy customer. If it turns out to be a disappointment after a month or
two, Costco is good about returns.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a">Thanks to
all!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #44546a">Karl<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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