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NETGEAR INTRODUCES A FAMILY OF ORBI TRI-BAND WIFI SYSTEMS
We are announcing the availability of two new Orbi kits and two new Stand Alone Satellites.
RBK30: The new Orbi Tri-band WiFi System includes an AC2200 router and wall-plug satellite designe...
The new units are still 'tri-band' meaning they still have a dedicated radio for backhaul - correct? That is where the advantage lies among the competitors, not sharing a radio for backhaul and clients. Its just that now that radio will be 2x2 instead of 4x4.
So it might be slower for computers talking to eachother on your home's intranet, but for traffic leaving the home - most people don't have internet packages where they should run into this new limitation, unless they have gigabit service to their home. I think for majority of users RBK50 and RBK40 would perform similarly.
That said, RBK40 is priced where RBK50 has been recently so why bother getting RBK40.
I think the router should be RBR50 across the board and some variety in satellite form factors would have been a nice expansion of the lineup
djc6 wrote:The new units are still 'tri-band' meaning they still have a dedicated radio for backhaul - correct?
As per the current information available, three radios, one for the backhaul - yes.
djc6 wrote:
That is where the advantage lies among the competitors, not sharing a radio for backhaul and clients. Its just that now that radio will be 2x2 instead of 4x4.
Not sure there is no more/new competition using a radio exclusively for the backhaul.
djc6 wrote:
So it might be slower for computers talking to eachother on your home's intranet, but for traffic leaving the home - most people don't have internet packages where they should run into this new limitation, unless they have gigabit service to their home. I think for majority of users RBK50 and RBK40 would perform similarly.
If this would be true, something is wrong. Each satellite can take traffic from a 2.4 GHz 400 Mbps radio, a 5 GHz 867 Mbps 2x2 radio, and four resp. one GbE ports. So in plain free space, one average 867 Mbps STA as installed in most notebooks today is able to use up all the backhaul capacity. With longer distance, wire more obstacles like walls, ... from the satellite to the router, the performance of the backhaul will come down, the latency will go up ... much faster than on the fully featured 4x4 backhaul. And depending on the environment, a 2x2 on 5 GHz can go well below 100 or even 50 Mbps. Now we're well within good DSL connection downlink speeds again. And this in a local (W)LAN system, where one might want to access a NAS, ...?
djc6 wrote:
That said, RBK40 is priced where RBK50 has been recently so why bother getting RBK40.
List price vs. street price vs. MSRP vs. Amazon sometimes selling below costs. Of course there must be a massive price difference. After the initial phase, I'm convinced, the new units are designed to be massively discounted. Otherwise, the effort would not make much sense.
