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Orbi Demo Units?
We moved to this old multi family in NJ, pre-war with real thick brick walls plus the WiFi channel interference (I see at least 20 SSIDs in the list). We have FIOS gigabit and the rep agreed that thei...
My humble opinion is that Orbis running the current V2.1.4.16 firmware are not stable enough to trust with the safety of a child via baby monitor.
- Interesting. Looks like if I not getting a Netgear demo I might have to look elsewhere. I heard identical comments on Reddit which is the reason to get a demo. I was thinking of staying in the Netgear ecosystem - we are an Apple family and it appears there are similar complaints regarding that combo too, Apple and Netgear.
Again, does Netgear have a phone sales team to discuss some of these issues?
mavericksp wrote:
Interesting. Looks like if I not getting a Netgear demo I might have to look elsewhere. I heard identical comments on Reddit which is the reason to get a demo. I was thinking of staying in the Netgear ecosystem - we are an Apple family and it appears there are similar complaints regarding that combo too, Apple and Netgear.
Again, does Netgear have a phone sales team to discuss some of these issues?Your expectations sound silly to me. You won't consider buying it unless the company gives you a loaner? :smileylol: How many companies have lined up to make you that offer?
Orbi is a mass-market consumer product that costs a couple hundred bucks. The company isn't going to spend the money offering loaners to random people, many of whom may not know how to use the product properly. They don't have a sales team to make single-unit sales to random consumers. Your best bet along those lines is to find a boutique computer shop that will loan you one, if such a shop exists.
Orbi will either work great for you or it won't. That's what the return policy is for. There's no shame in returning something if it doesn't work for you, except maybe if it didn't work because you didn't know what you were doing.
Orbi works great for me and is smoking fast. I measure over 600 Mbps throughput on WiFi. I can get 30 Mbps throughput in the middle of my yard 500 feet away from my house.