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Is the Orbi right for me?
I am thinking about buying the RBK44. But here is what I want to do... Currently I have a linkys wireless router and two linksys wifi repeters that create there own seperate wifi networks. But ea...
Your scenario is just like mine and the Orbi router in AP mode with two sat's will as you say give you an extended wifi network with a single SSID and a single management interface. In AP mode all the Orbi router functions will be disabled and DHCP will continue to come from the ISP router.
For me the Orbi has done everything I hoped, others here are so PO'd they want to sue Netgear. I proceeded despite this forum and decided it was worth a chance to get what I considered the best hardware. Depending on where you buy from you will have a return window typically 90 days to a year.
That sounds great... I am in Canada so I have limited purchase options so I will likely buy form Amazon.ca. Not sure what they have as a return policy on this...
What is the primary issue most people are having with the Orbi.
jrdawsonwrote:That sounds great... I am in Canada so I have limited purchase options so I will likely buy form Amazon.ca. Not sure what they have as a return policy on this...
What is the primary issue most people are having with the Orbi.Some people, the ones that tend to gravitate to this forum, have experienced random reboots, random disconnects, performance drop offs. Some of them blame recent firmware updates and want Netgear to provide an option to disable updates. Some of the blame goes to devices that have caused many router products to crash due to poor bahavior with some Android devices. The android issues (phones, Google home, Chromecast etc) seem to have been fixed by Google updates.
I have all of those devices and more on my network and have seen none of the problems so far. There are a lot of smart people here, some with deep networking experience and we still cant figure out why some people with large complex networks have no issues and others cant keep a reliable system running for more than 2 mins.