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Why No Circle for RBR750 or other Wifi6 Routers??
I've had my RBR750 for months now, and there still is no word on an implementation of the Circle app for it. It was an expensive router, and i thought it would come with that feature right out of th...
I currently have a Google Wifi mesh AP's all over my house with the 2nd Gen Circle for parental control. I also had the first Gen but I upgraded to the 2nd gen to get the gigabit port. The Circle functions well and the feature set is really nice. I have 4 teenagers. I haven't been very happy with my Google Wifi AP's as of late tough. Mostly because I upgraded to Gig fiber and all my wired connections get ~900Mbps up/down (if I bypass the Circle), my wifi gets 50-150 depending on where I am in the house regardless. I was about to hit "Buy" on the new Orbi Wifi6 three pack because I knew the previous model had Circle built in. I really want to have Circle built in because I don't like the bottle neck of having traffic route through the Circle and then the router.
Cirlce really needs to be added to the new Orbi. I'm not buy it until it is. In the mean time, I'm watching reviews of the parental controls for other Wifi6 systems to see if anything has similar functions as Circle, in which case I'll purchase that instead of Orbi. Come on Netgear!
blizaine wrote:I currently have a Google Wifi mesh AP's all over my house with the 2nd Gen Circle for parental control. I also had the first Gen but I upgraded to the 2nd gen to get the gigabit port. The Circle functions well and the feature set is really nice. I have 4 teenagers. I haven't been very happy with my Google Wifi AP's as of late tough. Mostly because I upgraded to Gig fiber and all my wired connections get ~900Mbps up/down (if I bypass the Circle), my wifi gets 50-150 depending on where I am in the house regardless. I was about to hit "Buy" on the new Orbi Wifi6 three pack because I knew the previous model had Circle built in. I really want to have Circle built in because I don't like the bottle neck of having traffic route through the Circle and then the router.
Cirlce really needs to be added to the new Orbi. I'm not buy it until it is. In the mean time, I'm watching reviews of the parental controls for other Wifi6 systems to see if anything has similar functions as Circle, in which case I'll purchase that instead of Orbi. Come on Netgear!
I've upgraded to Orbi from Google WiFi as well. Parental control on Google WiFi was okay, but the speed was terrible. Orbi delivers up to 1Gb for all my devices, very pleased. Circle Home Plus is not routing traffic through, it's monitoring and filtering traffic for managed devices, and will degrade speed if you are running it in the "compatibility mode" which is unnecessary for RBR750.
Thanks for the info. I don't run Circle in Campatiblity mode, but any managed device on my network takes a huge performance hit, so I assumed all managed traffic was being forced through the Circle. For instance a PC that is wired to a netgear gigabit switch with both the Circle and main Google Wifi router node hardwired to the same switch will get about 150-200Mbps when it is set to "managed" in the Circle app. But If I set the PC to unmanaged or disable the Circle, I get the ~900Mbps.
blizaine wrote:Thanks for the info. I don't run Circle in Campatiblity mode, but any managed device on my network takes a huge performance hit, so I assumed all managed traffic was being forced through the Circle. For instance a PC that is wired to a netgear gigabit switch with both the Circle and main Google Wifi router node hardwired to the same switch will get about 150-200Mbps when it is set to "managed" in the Circle app. But If I set the PC to unmanaged or disable the Circle, I get the ~900Mbps.
Why do you need "Compatibility mode"? Have you had any issues with filtering?
In Circle app I've created a profile for my kid only and mapped her devices, the Home profile is empty, I'm not assigning any other devices to it. I'll run test on her "managed" devices to see, but I'm not using "compatibility" mode.