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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...
I bought my Orbi over a year ago, I can't believe that Netgear are planning to update there Orbi range later this year, with new technologies.
I hope Netgear will refund all 1st generation orbi owners, as we all thought technology would standstill!
Actually, I am one of the silent majority, who really quite likes there Orbi. After years of messing about with geeky top of the range Asus routers (excellent products). I have a boring Orbi system that covers my whole house 2.4 and 5ghz. Providing 20 plus devices with more bandwidth than I need, even for 4k and gaming.
In the 70s, I used to have a casio digital watch, where you had to push a button to see the time displayed in red for a few seconds, today I wear a Samsung Galaxy Watch!
Time and Technology waits for no man, bring on the future.
Their not there
Which there?
- Just purchased the whole home AC3000, RBR50 + 2x RBS50 satellites. I live in a 5000sqf home, 2 lvls.
I previously tried the TP-Link Archer AC5400 x 3.- Not that great. Rate it 5/10.
Then tried the Linksys Velop - 1Router + 3 Satellites - not great. Lots of connection issues. One of my TVs wouldn’t even start -weak wifi. I would rate it 7/10. Returned it.
Samsung AC2200 wholesome wi-fi -not good at all forced most of my devices on the 2.4GhZ. Returned it. Rate 3/10
Was excited to try Uniquity Amplifi, router plus 2 plug in antennas. It claimed 20,000 coverage. It was by far the slickest system, super easy set up 5 min. It didn’t perform that well. I would rate it 5/10. Returned it.
Now I have the Orbi, which claims 7500sqf coverage. Many others make claims like this but not true, maybe open space no walls.
With the Orbi everything works fine, strong signal but in some places not strong enough. My TV that wouldn’t start works wine now, however I tested 80mbps with Orbi but Netflix says not enough bandwidth. Don’t understand that. So far Orbi has the best speed and coverage compared to my previous systems. Rate it 8/10 Granted I haven’t tweaked the Advance Setting to enable Beam forming and MIMO etc I was thinking of adding 1xsattelite but might wait for the new Orbi instead. Been reading the forums and still not sure if I can Ethernet wore my satyelites back to the router ?! I’ve got the sattelites on wireless now. How many more sattelites can I add?!
Orbi is not perfect but better than the rest.
Will try whatever comes out next because I need a very good coverage for my house.You can add more satellites -- I dont know what the upper limit is, but the capacity is for sure more than you will require.
Is there any opportunity for you to hard wire any satellites you have? I have a mixture of hard wired and wireless backhaul and it works great and maximizes bandwidth.
Would be good to know a couple of things to optimize your setup and perhaps gain back that bandwidth netflix says it needs.
1. What version of firmware are you running?
2. Are you in a hub-and-spoke configuration with your router at the hub (direct comms to each satellite) or are you in a daisy chain setup (a satellite is playing the middle man between router and farthest satellite)?
3. In the Orbi GUI under ADVANCED | ADVANCED SETUP | WIRELESS SETTINGS, what are the settings you currently have for
Enable Daisy-Chain Topology Enable Implicit BEAMFORMING - Boosts WiFi speed, reliability, & range for all mobile devices Enable MU-MIMO Enable Fast Roaming
