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Orbi 860 ssid iot or 850
hello i wanted to know if those models have the ssid iot feature ? and wich is better to buy in term of update futurproof etc. (860 is from 2023 and the other from 2020) than you !
Since the 860 series has FW v7 support, yes, it has the IoT support as well.
thank you for your answer and in term of update/ stability is it better then the old 850 ? ( recent update)
I've not had the 860 series to test with, only the 850 series. I think the only difference was the WAN port, the 860 series has a 10Gb WAN port where the 850 has a 2.5Gb speed on the WAN port. I think everything else was the same. Something you can check out between each model spec sheet to see.
I agree. The only significant difference appears to be incorporating a 10G WAN port on the 860 to replace the 2.5G WAN port on the 850. Both systems have the same Qualcomm IPQ8074A processor. Same RAM. Same storage.
https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/orbi/rbk852.pdf
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBR860S/RBR860S_TS.pdf
The 860 Product Data Sheet makes a vague reference to "new antenna design" on the 860. They do not look much different from the 850 antennas on the FCC submission internal photos:
https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/PY319200452/5159988
https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/PY322100556/5989864
Is it worth $300 to have a 10G WAN port?
