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Orbi noob, going in with some trepidation
My Orbi system will be delivered tomorrow. One base system and two sattelites. Our house is 60 feet from end to end, 3 floors including the basement. 30 feet wide plus a porch. Looking at the Ama...
The Orbi system has now been in operation for a week with no surprises. Fairly large and complex environment with a mix of Windows, Apple, Google, Amazon, Ring and a boatload of smarthome.
No disconnects, no reboots, no slowdowns. The Orbi is doing just what it says on the tin.
As with mutual funds, past behavior is not a predictor of future behavior but I remain cautiously optimistic and hope that Netgear and their ODM learn from their recent experience with software updates.
This forum is geared up for problems/solutions and keeps bugging me to mark this topic as solved so I will do just that while I continue to monitor the ongoing discussions and learn.
The system was delievered yesterday morning and I had it all up and running in about an hour. Router and sattelites are now on the latest firmware with the router placed in the center of the house (Kitchen/Family room) and the two sattelites on the upper floor, one at either end. Sattelites had no issues synching up to the router over the native wireless.
The Fios router in the basement is still the main router and managing DHCP with the Orbi router in AP mode. The Fios router is plugged into a 24 port gigabit switch with a patch panel and cat 5e cable going to sockets in the living areas with the router plugged into one of those sockets. There is quite a bit of wired network going to various devices.
There is no sign of anything rebooting or disconnecting so far. I have cut over maybe two thirds of the devices but I have included a lot of Android, Windows and smarthome stuff.
I plugged a wired printer into one of the satellite ethernet ports and it works just fine. The packaging and the external look and finish of the units is very nicely done.
To avoid conflicts with the existing wifi I restricted the Orbi 2.4ghz radio to just channel 2, well away from the old system. I'm going to run them in parallel for a good while in case I need to fall back but in the next day or so I expect to be mostly on the Orbi.
So far so good.
For many people, the Orbi system works great. Hope it continues to work well for you!