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How come ORBI still getting raving reviews? is Netgear paying them for good reviews and ignoring a l
How come ORBI still getting raving reviews? is Netgear paying them for good reviews and ignoring the phenominal number of users in this forum having issues. Those issues are real and sooner or later ...
Hi,
I won't - and can't argue against your points, but you will have to take into account, that most often, the vendors' forums, like this one are populated by two kind of people. Geeks/Nerds, who want to stay on top on any beta firmware any vendor might be offering and then the people, who are having issues with their product.
Luckily, I am able to count myself to the first category. I am running a RBK40 myself and I am "managing" two other Orbi systems (RBK40/RBK53), where none of those three shows any issue or is acting weird. I have been following these discussions since Jan. and all of "my" systems simply work - and they operate all on the latest FW 2.1.2.18.
I really do think, that there is something broken in the Orbi firmware, but for some reason over here in Europe, things don't seem to be nearly as bad as in the US.
Just my 2c, as well.
Every mesh wifi product sold on Amazon has pretty much the same percentage of people that love it (80 to 90 percent) and people that hate it and will never buy another product from that company again (10 to 20 percent). As stated by others, this forum attracts mostly the people having a problem while the silent majority are blissfully unaware of this discussion.
If the problem was just down to a flaky backhaul implementation we would be able to describe a usage scenario that would always work but there are people that cant maintain a connection with their ISP, cant maintain a reliable device connection to an Orbi. It frustrates me that we cant figure out why some people with large complex and diverse Orbi deployments have a problem-free experience and others want to tar and feather the Orbi product people.