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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...
ekhalil wrote:
Orbi and other routers are transparent to networking protocols like Thread and Matter. Your mesh devices should support Thread/Matter to be able to be part of the mesh but the router should be transparent.
I have today Orbi 50 and 850 series and they work fine with a small mesh of “HomeKit over Thread” devices (Apple TV + Eve Aqua).
The eero 6 pro (and I think eero 6) actually have a built-in radios so the mesh nodes actually function as thread edge routers.
Not sure if Orbi has Thread Border Gateway functionality in the roadmap like the eero. eero has also a Zigbee gateway :)
Agree that this is a nice functionality to have in a wifi mesh but not sure if it’s needed now as not many Thread devices are in the market yet. Soon “Matter” will come and probably the next Orbi’s will have Matter Gateways instead? :)
But you know that the Apple TV and HomePods (which you anyways have to have for Thread to work) can as well act as Border Gateways. One such device is good enough in the network. Two devices will provide you with redundancy, which is all what you need.
Agree that this is a nice functionality to have in a wifi mesh but not sure if it’s needed now as not many Thread devices are in the market yet. Soon “Matter” will come and probably the next Orbi’s will have Matter Gateways instead? :)
But you know that the Apple TV and HomePods (which you anyways have to have for Thread to work) can as well act as Border Gateways. One such device is good enough in the network. Two devices will provide you with redundancy, which is all what you need.