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What you can expect with your Orbi system
I'm writing this mainly because a post like this would have saved me a lot of time and effort. If you're thinking about buying an Orbi system, or recently purchased one, here's a few things you can e...
I suspect most of the people who made it as far as this forum already tried disabling all the added features to get better stability, and, like me, found it made no difference. Of course it begs the question if I have to disable key selling points like MIMO and beam-forming, why did I buy this product in the first place?
Sadly, it appears the majority of users are not seeing these issues (yet), and posting 5 star reviews on Amazon. Just in the past few days there have been dozens of 5 star reviews, so any lower ratings are drowned out in the noise. I'm guessing people post immediately, and even if they later see the problems don't come back to revise their review. Will be interesting to see if more people end up here after time passes.
rphsiawrote:I suspect most of the people who made it as far as this forum already tried disabling all the added features to get better stability, and, like me, found it made no difference. Of course it begs the question if I have to disable key selling points like MIMO and beam-forming, why did I buy this product in the first place?
Sadly, it appears the majority of users are not seeing these issues (yet), and posting 5 star reviews on Amazon. Just in the past few days there have been dozens of 5 star reviews, so any lower ratings are drowned out in the noise. I'm guessing people post immediately, and even if they later see the problems don't come back to revise their review. Will be interesting to see if more people end up here after time passes.
I bought my system a little over two weeks ago and immediately updated the router and both sat's to the dreaded 2.1.2.18 firmware. Router and sats are showing 16 days of uptime and if I had not found this forum I too would be singing the praises of the Orbi. It has exceeded my expectations. I dont know why we have this dichotomy and it cant be different devices or different ISP/modem/router. It doesnt seem limited to people in AP mode or people in Router mode.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that we have different hardware and some systems work and some dont. Even hardware with evolving chips can evolve with with the hardware differences accomodated in the software. If chipset A then do this, if chipset B then do that etc.
It is unlikely that Netgear makes the Orbi, they probably buy it from an ODM and for all I know Netgear product management is still trying to figure out what is going on. For sure they are not sharing much here.