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Netgear and thread support
Anyone know what Netgear's planning to do about thread/matter support? I'd hate to think I'm going to have to go eero to get this stuff working - they just don't have Orbi's speed. Not that I...
Well, since the Orbi warranties can't be extended past the pro warranty extension, looks like if something goes wrong I'll be swapping to an eero 6 pro. At $600 for a three mesh nodes it makes more sense than going for an Orbi wifi 6 mesh at $999 (on sale! We increased the price by $219 so we could show you getting a $219 discount!) or 6e at $1499. At a lower per unit cost they'll probably be more willing to hardware swap anyway (Orbi support has always been highly resistant to replacing hardware).
I have a satellite which I always have to power cycle after a reboot, and never could get it replaced. In addition, the eero is a Homekit compatible secure router.
Orbi 6e doesn't really make any sense - I don't have any 6e devices, and the mesh LAN nodes only have gigabit anyway. I'll get integrated thread support, and may experience a throughput drop and will need a couple of more ethernet switches but nowadays speeds are high enough for most purposes anyway. If I need to backup/restore my arrays I'll just have to move both arrays to the same switch (which is what I had to do on my Orbi anyway).
The RBSE's have both 1000 and 2.5Gb LAN ports.
VerneArase wrote:..... At a lower per unit cost they'll probably be more willing to hardware swap anyway (Orbi support has always been highly resistant to replacing hardware).
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