Firmware Update Nightmares - The Never Ending Saga...

Coming here, I have often wondered what percentage of the Orbi installed base are represented. Looking at Amazon and Best Buy, there seems to be a lot of content people, and looking at tech mag reviews Orbi is always up there. I have had my Orbi system for over a year. Netgear modem, Orbi set in router mode. Through all the firmware updates I have had exactly two events: One satellite disconnected and was stubborn in reconnection, but with a bit of manipulation came back on line and continued to perform just fine. The other event was daisy chain doing wierd stuff. After figuring out what that was all about and doing a work around, everything came back great. Currently I have 28 devices hooked up to Orbi, and over Christmas with hosting a house full, there were 40. No one complained and everyone was able to do what they wanted to do on line in every corner of the house, without affecting my home devices operations at all. My house is about 2600 sq. ft. and people were doing their facetime out in the detached pergula, or in front looking at a guest's new truck and googling to see if he really got a good deal.

Just saying. For everyone who needs to tell about looking at a brick for a year, despising the choice they made, there are countless others who have had a year or more worth of experience, shaky firmware updates and all, of getting their money's worth. I bought Orbi for coverage with performance (believe me, it is not the most unobtrusive design out there but it does have big antennas). I retired my trusty RT-ac68U and Netgear extender and instead of having 5GHz fall off the clifff with distance from the old trusty Asus (and extender signals are sucky at best), have the available wifi connections I need with signal strengths that never drop below -50 db, and run -30 to -40 db at ten feet from router and each satellite.