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Orbi Wifi 6 AX6000 Is a Disaster, Do NOT Buy!
I bought the Orbi Wifi 6 AX6000 kit and got it from Best Buy last week -- it is an absolute disaster! I documented my plight here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu4kB85W78c Cons No backward c...
You bought literally the newest of the new. These features might be coming down the road (not sure as I'm not a Netgear employee) but they don't list anywhere on their website any of the features you list as a con. The spec sheet doesn't show them, the orbi box itself doesn't show them.
The original Orbi initially shipped with very minimal features that slowly got added on as the technology progressed. Like I said, its literally the newest of the new. New wireless standard and new mesh setup. If I'd bought something like this, my hope would be that all the basic features were rock solid prior to adding in the add-ons.
I'm not sure whats going on with Best Buy but Amazon doesn't even have this available for order until November 11th. Netgear's own website doesn't even have a product manual listed yet.
I can't judge whether the system is good or not as I haven't played with one yet. The only point I fully agree with is the con of the price tag. $700 is stretching the budget quite a bit. Only bonus to it is that it has caused the old Orbi system to go down in price and make more palpable for other people.
Actually when I preordered this there WERE descriptions listing that parental controls were available. I asked this specifically of Netgear prior to the release and they would NOT comment or confirm I asked also about backwards compatability of the old RBS50's as they would not comment as my concern was that my setup requires 1+2 satellites. I have a media center on one satellite, and another set of computers on another. Without 2 satellites the media center ends up on 802.11 g/n which cannot even maintain a 4K video stream despite Wifi 6 so there's absolutely no point. You cannot even buy the RBS850 satellite by itself so if you really need 2 you need 2 Wifi 6 kits $1400!? The issue here is they priced this as a "premium" iteration of Orbi, and implied in silence that this would be as good as the current Orbi generation, but it is nowhere near as functional and again double+ the cost. Parental controls, Netgear Armor should not be huge integrations and should have been implemeted before the hardware was sold. Any upgraded generation should have the full function of the previous generation, and to be silent or not commonet on that is disingenuous and baiting early adopters like me to try it out. My queston, how did Netgear expect we would respond after stripping features, number of satellites, and bilking us for cash? I will buy the system when it is fully implemented and available in a 1+2 setup to match what I'm using now with exception of the 802.11ax/Wifi 6 radio upgrades. It would have been better for Netgear to be more transparent of its LACK of features rather than being coy about it.