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Trying to understand benefit of upgrading?
Current setup: 400MB plan with my ISP and run an RBR50 with 2 satellites and an RBW30 as well. I routinely have between 30 and 50 devices connected. I was going to add another satellite to help wi...
Any WiFi AX should be finalized this year as well.
My thoughts on upgrading my RBR50 to RBR850 was simple... Sooner or later Wifi 6 devices will become the norm rather than the exception and I wanted to have the baseline architecture ready in my home to receive them. Kind of a chicken and egg scenario.
Do I have any of those devices yet? No. But the architecture is now in place for when that happens and I wont have to worry about learning two things simultaneously (the device AND the architecture).
I originally had Armor installed on the RBR50 and took it out long ago as I didnt think it provided value added to me... It is not yet available in the 850; since I didnt use it before, this was no big deal.
New firmware is in the works for the 850 as you would expect since that is the new "thing". With that new firmware will come new capabilities, so being an early-adopter I decided to pull the trigger early.