The original post: /r/homenetworking by /u/BurnInOblivion on 2025-03-28 18:41:03.

My dad bought an incomplete Orbi Mesh network cheap from Craigslist. Upon trying to set it up, he discovered that he only got 2 Orbi Satellites (no Router). From some quick googling I concluded that it’s a pretty closed network AKA I need the Orbi router to set up the mesh network.

However, after some phonecalls between the seller and some googling himself, my dad believes that it should be possible to set up the Mesh network with a non Mesh router (we mainly wanna use them as WiFi Extenders), however he is not exactly tech savy and I do not have experience setting these things up myself.

Does anyone if this is possible to set up & if so how?