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Alternative to Orbi
Getting frustrated with the constant drops on my IOS devices, wondering if it is time to take the Orbi back to Costco and get something else. I have a 4000SF house, wood construction and Ethernet dr...
With wired connections, wired access points would be the better choice.
I have an Orbi at one location where I cannot easily run wires. At my other location, where I can run wires and have walls that block RF, I use access points.
You can probably cover your entire 4000 SF house with two or three APs, and the cost would be similar. I haven't tried roaming from one AP to another on a WiFi call yet though.
So what does everyone recommend for a rock solid router and AP set-up, I liked the idea of a mesh wireless network for wifi calling.
I just bought a couple Ubiquiti APs--one AP-AC-PRO and one AP-AC-LR. I'm using with an eisting FiOS router. Online reviews are good. So far so good, but they've only been running about a week. I get full FiOS speed throughout the house (75M/75M). I have may close neighbors at that site, and can see their WiFi routers, so I'm not sure Orbi would be kind to my neighbors there.
st_shaw wrote:I just bought a couple Ubiquiti APs--one AP-AC-PRO and one AP-AC-LR. I'm using with an eisting FiOS router. Online reviews are good. So far so good, but they've only been running about a week. I get full FiOS speed throughout the house (75M/75M). I have may close neighbors at that site, and can see their WiFi routers, so I'm not sure Orbi would be kind to my neighbors there.
I had those too and they are great with ethernet drops for APs. But I can't get cables to my remote locations in the house. So when I used they wirelessly connected to main, I got tons of buffering on AppleTV and drops. Orbi has (almost) been trouble free.
whsbuss-1 wrote:I had those too and they are great with ethernet drops for APs. But I can't get cables to my remote locations in the house. So when I used they wirelessly connected to main, I got tons of buffering on AppleTV and drops. Orbi has (almost) been trouble free.
I use the APs at a location where I can run wires. At another site where I cannot, I use the Orbi. The Orbi is working well. The only potential issue I am seeing with Orbi is high variability and latency when pinging between wireless clients. I'm not sure what's going on there yet.
Don't get the Linksys Velop. It has only an Android app for setup, no web interface. The app is buggy and incomplete. The Velop is branded Linksys, but it is a Belkin product. The customer support sucks.....(48 hour wait time for call back) and there is no User Manual. I don't trust Belkin. They are very similar to the old Radio Shack products.
The specs make it sound good, but you can't network to your wired computers with this junk.
Just a clarification about the Velop... wireless devices can indeed communicate just fine with computers/printers on the wired network. But yes, it sucks that there's no web GUI, and hopefully they'll add some of the inexplicably missing features (coders probably just ran out of time before release... similar to how Orbi was missing guest network at first).
And in response to loomis1975, it can do ethernet backhaul.
Your clarification is wrong. I have just gotten off the phone with Velop customer support. The Velop will not communicate with Wired computers on my network through File Explorer/Network. They show up, but you can't access the shares. Customer support could not figure it out. Yes, it does ethernet backhaul like the Orbi, but the router is very buggy, so the back haul is useless.