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What Orbi will work best for me?
Does anyone know of an affordable Orbi that work for me? I currently have the eero 6e+ and the speeds are better than Google Wi-Fi Pro 6e (even though I have all google everything, it really wasn’t close in terms of speed, but google did have better range). I figured $400 would do the trick instead of having to spend $1200 on Orbis, plus I head that you have to reboot about 1-2x/week and jumping from mesh to mesh can be a bit painful. I have a 3400sqft house, 1.2GB service from Xfinity, I have a pool that’s about 100ft from the house, Lutron smart hub, 5 Sonos amps & about 10 speakers/smartbubs. In would say about 30-60 Wi-Fi products (including Wi-Fi bulbs, phones, lights, google minis, hubs, speakers, tvs etc). When next to Eero I get around 600-700 mbps (download from modem to eero is 1.4GB). When connected and next to any of the wireless mesh eeros I get 200-400 MAX mbps (there is really no way for me to hardwire/daisy eeros, unless I drill through beams, ceilings, etc). I also don’t get range by the pool. I have 3 eeros total. Do you think I would gain significant speed with orbi & which would work best. I don’t have many Wi-Fi 6 devices, but I’d prefer to be future proof, unless my speed will be capped at 1.2GBPS anyway and I can get that out of another Orbi… sorry for the long post, just wanted to be detailed and give all you Orbi Pros as much info as possible.
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Be aware if you have 1.2Gb ISP services, and want to use that in your network, you'll need a Orbi 8 or 9 series system as these are the only models that have a 2.5Gb WAN port speed support. However the 9 series is the only model that also support 2.5Gb speeds on the LAN port side. The 8 series only has 1Gb LAN ports.
100feet out doors is not really support as Orbi is for mostly inside the home and partial signal coverage out side of the home, maybe 20-30 feet out side.
For that some of home, depending on building materials, the router and just 1 RBS would be needed. Two could be used if the power was reduced some on the main router.
The eero 6e is a pretty solid system. Like FURRYe38 says, you'd have to upgrade to the 8 or 9 series to get faster speeds and thats quite a price increase for not much extra speed.
Instead of upgrading, see about adding an outdoor extender to your current setup. there aren't any current ones from eero or Orbi currently so you could probably just use a standard wifi extender thats outdoor rated and put it halfway between where you need coverage and the house. that might do the trick but you'd have to check with eero.
In terms of speed, it usually isn't the router that is bottlenecking your speed but the device you use (phone/tablet/etc). And most devices don't need more than the 200mbps your hitting. Reason I say that is you can stream 4k with only 25-40mbps. So unless you're uploading a load of data over wifi, you're current speeds should suffice for what you're doing.
