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Switching to Gig Speed service
Hello - I currently have the RBR50 router with two sattelites. I am in the process of moving to a new home ~6500Sq Ft and will be using Gig Service. Interested in the pro's / cons of using my curre...
6500sq ft.
thats a big home.
Not sure what you have setup but that's a lot of area to cover.
I know I've got an orbi setup running gigabit successfully. And I run >50 devices on it.
so device wise and speed wise, the 50 series is capable. In terms of covering that much area, you'd probably need extra satellites depending on what you're coming from.
Benefit is that you already have the Orib system. You can try it out and see how well it covers.
there's been users on here who've integrated the AX system with the regular orbi. Its not a full integration but you can read through it. I can't attest to how well it works as I don't have an Orbi AX.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/Additional-satellites/td-p/1815762
I upgraded my smaller home's RBR50 system to RBK853. I added a couple extra satellites to both systems. From my experience I "think" the AX system provides more usable coverage area with less satellites, but I don't have any real data to support that. The customer from that other AX post also mentions the same thing.
Remember that 5G has faster speeds but less range than 2.4Ghz. So the advantages of AX are really just just faster speeds, especially if you have WiFi 6 devices (like iPhone 11 Pro). Those devices will get closer to your 1G service limits. Your other non-wifi 6 devices may see small speed improvements over 5G, but frankly this doesn't make much practical difference unless you are speed constrained (and streaming video or reading web pages are not such activities).