I'm another RBR50 user from NZ. I purchased the Orbi setup to replace a pair of Asus routers. My ASUS gear worked 'ok' but my devices would endlessly roam back and forth between the two nodes causing poor all round performance.

My Orbi experience has been fair to poor all told. I mean this morning my RBR50 and satellite simply rebooted for no reason. And the useless logs of course are cleared down so I cannot troubleshoot things. Initially when I bought the Orbi a few months back I got quite a number of reboots and disconnects. Things have settled down somewhat with a couple of firmware updates but it still happens from time to time, with no discernable pattern or cause. I'm also somewhat unimpressed with the range of the Orbi gear compared to my very run of the mill Asus routers.

My iPhone 6S phone is also constantly resynching - switching nodes and endlessly renegotiating its speed (something I can see on the App). As a result it chews through my phone's battery. Of course it did this with the Asus gear as well but it seems, if anything, even worse with the Orbi.

The big saving grace for the Obrbi is the strong backhaul radio that has allowed me to get 'good' connectivity into my office during lockdown (no cables).

About the only thing I've not yet done, and I've tried all the usual swttings tweaks, is the factory reset process. I will do it, but with my network setup, the initial Orbi setting things up process can be a pain in the arse with clashing IP numbers etc.

Would I buy Orbi again? No almost certainly not. And I did come into this with some awareness of the problems people experience but underestimated the angst it would cause. Anyway, I just thought I'd relate my experiences as another Kiwi with the same gear.

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