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Does Orbi Use HT160 Larger Channel Widths?
What exactly are the capabilities of the Orbi system? I find their specs vague and misleading, but maybe that’s just me. For example, I have Spectrum Gig service, 940Mbps wired, and I am barely gettin...
Spike13 wrote:
............ so if your paying a premium for Gig service like I am this may not be the device for you.
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Why do you need 1 Gbps for one user? which app/service needs this much of bandwidth for one user? The Gig service that you are paying for is meant to give good throughput for a number of users at the same time.
Fair question. There’s a few reasons. I use a Synology NAS and all my file transfers are currently being done over WiFi for convenience. I also use cloud backup from this NAS so the more bandwidth I have the better. Doing this was 15Mbos ATT DSL was excruciating. And finally, I’m an old tweaker who used to build my own computers and I got hooked on overclockkng for a while, so yes I pointlessly try to get the most out of my machines even if it doesn’t always result in real world gains. I’m an old auto mechanic with an engineering background so I do the same with my truck as well (lifted, performance air intake, custom tune, etc.).
But occasionally I have a rare moment of pragmatism and to cap this thread off...I decided to keep the Orbi. Pretty funny I guess, but I really can’t convince myself that there’s a better more stable platform out there at the moment.
The R7900 didn’t play nice with the Spectrum modern, and that would have left me with multiple extenders across the house. So the Orbi is here to stay for me.
I think Netgear could do a better job of explaining the capabilities of the Orbi to the layman, but at the end of the day, it works, it seems stable, I have a large house and after quite a bit of experimentation I seem to have good WiFi coverage everywhere with the one router and two satellites (just keep pressing synch, don’t give up the first time you get the dreaded magenta color indicating no connection if your cell shows a strong connection to the router in that area), and speeds are very good.
Hopefully Netgear will continue to enhance the Orbi with firmware updates, my only complaint at the moment seems to be my link speed is pretty variable. Even when I’m 10 feet away fro the router and not moving, it jumps from ~500Mbps to 750Mbps.
I learned a bit and I think this will be a good overall solution for me. Thanks to all for the feedback.
But occasionally I have a rare moment of pragmatism and to cap this thread off...I decided to keep the Orbi. Pretty funny I guess, but I really can’t convince myself that there’s a better more stable platform out there at the moment.
The R7900 didn’t play nice with the Spectrum modern, and that would have left me with multiple extenders across the house. So the Orbi is here to stay for me.
I think Netgear could do a better job of explaining the capabilities of the Orbi to the layman, but at the end of the day, it works, it seems stable, I have a large house and after quite a bit of experimentation I seem to have good WiFi coverage everywhere with the one router and two satellites (just keep pressing synch, don’t give up the first time you get the dreaded magenta color indicating no connection if your cell shows a strong connection to the router in that area), and speeds are very good.
Hopefully Netgear will continue to enhance the Orbi with firmware updates, my only complaint at the moment seems to be my link speed is pretty variable. Even when I’m 10 feet away fro the router and not moving, it jumps from ~500Mbps to 750Mbps.
I learned a bit and I think this will be a good overall solution for me. Thanks to all for the feedback.