Orbi Best Connection setup

cjzielie

If you have ethernet in your house already, you bought the wrong product! If you are still in your retun window, get a differnet product!

The selling big value of the Orbi's is that they have a very fast and dedicated wireless Access point to Access Point connection. It's a separate 4x4 Mu-MIMO radio that can only be used between devices, and it's why they are so expensive.

However, their device to device connection is also very unreliable and bug ridden, and still slower than a wired connection in any case. The only reason to use an Orbi is if you don't have ethernet already. If you do, there are cheaper and more reliable solutions.

Please, please, please don't listen to the fanboys and try to use the Orbi's. Over the next few months you'll end up trying to figure out why your connectivity keeps cutting out and why you keep having to restart your devices. See here.

If you're more tech savvy, go get the Unifi's, if not, go get the Eero's. In either case, they "just work", and are very fast with a wired backhaul.