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Dustin_V
Jan 09, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
Orbi Mesh Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi 6 For The Gigabit Internet Home - #NETGEARCES2019
Orbi Whole Home WiFi just got even faster! NETGEAR is continuing to lead the new era of Wi-Fi. To kick off CES 2019, we announced plans to pair award-winning Orbi Wi-Fi with the latest Wi-Fi s...
randomousity
Jan 10, 2019Luminary
In theory, yes. But the firmware for the RBK50 doesn't even work properly, and hasn't been updated in months. ACLs don't work properly, the attached device list sometimes can't tell how a device is connected, satellites sometimes lose sync, satellites fail to sync with wired devices connected, DHCP doesn't properly handle subnets larger than 254 devices, etc. The v2.2.1.210 firmware actively made several features worse, and there's really no word on whether or when the issues will be addressed.
So yes, in theory, the new product sounds great, but not if Netgear can't reliably push out updates that don't break features, or at least quickly put out subsequent updates to fix what the prior one broke. And putting out new products probably means having fewer developers working on updates for existing products, so we'll probably have to expect even more delays.
- JoechangJan 10, 2019Apprenticecorrect, firmware developed based on terrible old Openwrt and off shore R&D team, not only lack of.feature but even stability is far behind