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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...
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.