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So if I was to return the Orbi
Wanting to try an alternate to the Orbi to see if I can get any better performance out of a stand alone wifi router before returning the Orbi to Costco. What is the best consumer grade router that I...
Took my Orbi back, probably true that I may not have needed the mesh set-up and plan to leverage my installed ethernet cabling if I need to add an AP. So far my WIFI and Network performance has been great with the 8500. I may be clueless but I know that the Orbi is not ready for prime time and still lacks a lot of features that other new routers have. I am not an IT expert but I know flaky performance when I see it.
Superpop wrote:Took my Orbi back, probably true that I may not have needed the mesh set-up and plan to leverage my installed ethernet cabling if I need to add an AP. So far my WIFI and Network performance has been great with the 8500. I may be clueless but I know that the Orbi is not ready for prime time and still lacks a lot of features that other new routers have. I am not an IT expert but I know flaky performance when I see it.
the issue here is the orbi was never designed and never have the features of a big honking router like the 8500 ( i have one btw and its pretty good ) , the orbi is designed for a different market , that market being those that dont want , need or care about the feature set and just want a working whole house wifi solution thats just about plug and play , as for so called prime time thats exactly what it does here , eg provide whole home wifi
