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MESH currenty or on roadmap
Hi all, Currently I am delaying my purchase due to the Orbi not being a MESH system, but a 'star' system. Since I am not able to place the router in the middle of my home, but I am convinced Orbi...
WouterNLD wrote:
What I understand is that a true MESH within the Orbi system is not available nor confirmed, but requested.Correct, but in most homes the star topology we use will give a better outcome than using mesh.
One Orbi router with one Orbi satellite can cover a very large area in most homes with high performance dedicated backhaul between the router and satellite.
We can't comment on what we may/may not have planned, but customer feedback (e.g. via the Idea Exchange) is important to us in helping us to decide where to focus our efforts.We have already added some popular requested features such as guest wi-fi.
In a lot of homes one satellite (in addition to the router) will be sufficient to cover the whole home even if the router has to be placed in the corner of the house.
How big is your home?
In my opinion this is the best Mesh/Wi-Fi system ever created, I have been using routers since the early 90s no other system has given me the speed and range this system has, forget about Google Wi-Fi, Eero, Looma etc this one beats them all, sure the software still has issues, but the bugs will be worked out with future updates, besides that it will be before and after Orbi, mark my words.
Exactly my sentiments. I just enabled QOS and the bufferbloat dropped significantly.
This Orbi and satellite system give me fast wifi like no other Netgear combo did prior. I had and always purchase the latest and greatest Router from Netgear as well as the extenders. The Orbi beats them hands down.
I am interested in the dslreports bufferbloat numbers for these new products, as well as wondering if anyone at netgear has been paying attention to the work on improving wifi ( https://lwn.net/Articles/705884/ ) and building something better than fq_codel for improving QoS (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/CakeTechnical/ ).
What lies beneath the new qos system here?
We could not get the wifi good in our house at all and with the Orbi it fixed our house. We have a large one story house. 2600 sq ft on 1 acre. It covers all the house now including most of the acre. Very impressed with this system. We get full speed everywhere inside the house. It may not be a mesh, but it works better than the other mesh systems and keeps the speed up.
