Add Netgear Armor to RBR850

Hi lj3252, welcome to the community! Thank you for your interest. As it stands, the NETGEAR Armor feature is continuously being tested and slowly being rolled out to various models. Your feedback is noted and will be forwarded to the appropriate team.

Dexter

I own the Orbi tri-band RBK53 (RBR50 and two RBS50 satellites), which is WiFi-5 and has the Armor feature that can be subscribed to.  I tested Armor initially for its trial period and it caused multiple issues on the performance of the WiFi, connections were being repeatedly dropped.  Once I deactivated Armor, my connectivity issues were resolved. Search the Orbi community and you will see many reports of these issues, see https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Buffering-Issue-on-Newly-Installed-Orbi-RBR50/m-p/1854581#M81233 for example. It may be due Armor causing too much CPU and/or memory load on the Orbi.  So unless the newer Orbi RBR850 WiFi-6 router has a more powerful CPU and/or more memory to handle the load that Armor puts on it, it may also cause it to have connectivity issues.

DexterJB, I just got my RBR850. In response tlj3252 , I figure this would've done by now. I didn't bother checking before I bought coz it was highly recommended by the IP technician. I'm really surprised why this is the newest model and "top of the line" sort of speak, and it doesn't have the armor security.  Request update.