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Netgear and thread support
Anyone know what Netgear's planning to do about thread/matter support? I'd hate to think I'm going to have to go eero to get this stuff working - they just don't have Orbi's speed. Not that I...
Yeah, I just read the full thread on the new firmware and I think I'm going to have to hold off on that.
I'm retired, but my wife is still working from home and she gets really peeved if I mess with anything and it affects her laptop (I have the scars to prove it).
Just went through a kerfluffle with the kitchen Hunter Signal fan where the light was disabled for days on end - just got everything working again this morning.
Perhaps I should go back to the 4.6.7.5 thread and see if anyone's got a Dell Latitude 7480 working on it - sure don't want to take a chance of this (relatively) ancient beast having problems with it like that Chromebook.
Orbi and other routers are transparent to networking protocols like Thread and Matter. Your mesh devices should support Thread/Matter to be able to be part of the mesh but the router should be transparent.
I have today Orbi 50 and 850 series and they work fine with a small mesh of “HomeKit over Thread” devices (Apple TV + Eve Aqua).
I have today Orbi 50 and 850 series and they work fine with a small mesh of “HomeKit over Thread” devices (Apple TV + Eve Aqua).
ekhalil wrote:
Orbi and other routers are transparent to networking protocols like Thread and Matter. Your mesh devices should support Thread/Matter to be able to be part of the mesh but the router should be transparent.
I have today Orbi 50 and 850 series and they work fine with a small mesh of “HomeKit over Thread” devices (Apple TV + Eve Aqua).The eero 6 pro (and I think eero 6) actually have a built-in radios so the mesh nodes actually function as thread edge routers.
- Not sure if Orbi has Thread Border Gateway functionality in the roadmap like the eero. eero has also a Zigbee gateway :)
Agree that this is a nice functionality to have in a wifi mesh but not sure if it’s needed now as not many Thread devices are in the market yet. Soon “Matter” will come and probably the next Orbi’s will have Matter Gateways instead? :)
But you know that the Apple TV and HomePods (which you anyways have to have for Thread to work) can as well act as Border Gateways. One such device is good enough in the network. Two devices will provide you with redundancy, which is all what you need.