First Experiences and thoughts

Had my 970 white system over a week now..

It came with the latest 9.10.0.2 firmware.

Setup was super easy, I have placed the satellites in various locations in the house and found where I have them now is best.

I found the wireless backhaul to only get 700-800mbps vs using my motorola moca 2.5's (one to one on 2 different lines) absolutely best, and now I get 1100-1200mbps, what I pay for from my ISP, using my 6e chromebook.

I had a Asus ET12, that with main and one satellite I always was getting great wifi signal from my farthest camera.

After testing the 970 in the same locations, I found that the camera would never get that same great signal, so I moved that satellite and placed the other in the opposite side of house with the router in the basement located centrally.  Now IF that camera connects to the closest satellite, I get great signal, but most of the time the camera connects to the farthest satellite or main router, weird, but the camera works good.

On 6Ghz band, I could not get the Chromebook to see or use the band, I had to force the ET12 to separate SSID for the band, NOW with the 970 the Chromebook always finds the 6Ghz band, that is a major PLUS, as I love the one SSID.

After testing, I find the 6Ghz band very (extremely) short distance before it turns into the same speed tests as 5Ghz, like 10-15 feet away from any router or satellite.  

I have about 25-30 devices constantly connected at all times and 50 devices total, no problems.

On the speedtest.net or app I get about the same speeds with old router vs 970 BUT I do get a tad more jitter on the 970.

I think and hope the 970 does get better over time BUT am also very very extremely worried with firmware updates as my last Orbi's Always, Always got worse wifi and would not stay up and running (meaning had to do reboots) so I just may keep reading these forums for others that do the firmware first, and try to make a judgement on if the new firmware actually improves.........  (hopefully netgear does not force updates even though I turned it off)

I have the traffic meter on and Security, I actually am starting to really like the security, I opened am email from a spam site by accident (as I normally do) not even clicking on anything in the email and the Orbi security found that I opened it and blocked it instantly, very nice indeed!!

What I do not care for is, all devices on the IoT network will not show in the app the connection speed, I may actually switch all back to the main SSID and disable the IoT, not sure on that yet, and one device would not connect to the IoT BUT did connect to the main SSID, strange.

I have been up for 5 days now around (took that long after fiddling with placement), devices seem to be settling on placement (meaning connected to main router or a satellite).