Almost officially done with Netgear Orbi and their support due to not fixing the wifi issues

guys its simple , ether go and get a replacement unit or return for a refund as i dont think firmware is going to fix most of your issues as in most cases im guessing these are hardware issues , swapping the units completly will prove this out but sitting here whinging about it not working and knowing many others have it working makes no sense but to swap the units over or get a refund 

just for info here is some testing i did at 25 meters through 4 walls ( gyprock ) and one end of my house to the other , mix of clients andriod , windows , apple etc and no one here complains at all 

netgear orbi via wifi router and 1 x sat , note the orbi is 867M max

5 gig

write 28.3 MB/s read 27.6 MB/s sync 866.5 rssi -36 ch 11

2.4 gig

write 21.4 MB/s read 17.3 sync 400 rssi -36 ch 11

netgear orbi via ethernet ( eg test comp – sat ethernet ( locatioon A ) – router ( location C ) – sat ethernet – synology 415+ ( location E ) )

write 30.6 MB/s read 40.2 MB/s

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so as you can see a working orbi performs great you can see in the link below the orbi compared to some wave 2 1733M and 2156M big honking routers and it performs as good and better in some conditions

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2599718

so if you havnt swapped over the orbi plz do so , if you have swaped it over and you still have issue return it and get a refund and try something else as the orbi obviously isnt for you 

pete