Orbi WiFi System
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Urgent: intertet usage by device!
We urgently need internet usage monitoring!. Since I switched to my orbi ac3000 my internet usage spiked 40%. Same usage same devices over the last 3 years only difference the router. Need to switch back to my old timecapule to avoid paying $10 to comcast for each addition 50G. Come on guys!6KViews54likes2Commentsrealtime bandwidth monitoring by device
It would be great if you could see realtime bandwidth per device for the netgear r7000, similar to Google Wifi and Eero. It would be a really useful info and diagnostic tool to see what devices are currently taking up bandwidth. It would be great if this was added to the router web administration page as well theNetgear Genie and/or Netgear Up apps. I've attached a screenshot of how this feature looks on Google Wifi.27KViews94likes15CommentsBandwidth monitoring by device
I've been searching the forums and the Internet in general, today, as I have gotten my first notice from Comcast that, lo, I am over my 1 Terabyte limit, this month. It has been inching toward that mark for a bit, and last month was around 944 Gig. What can I say: We are a connected, gaming, streaming family and our Comcast link is a vital utility. I have seen suggestions on this forum to "just disconnect everything and reconnect until you find the hog." With 30ish devices on the network, 4 kids, 2 renters, and countless visitors, this is simply not a possibility. What I could do is set up a different router (preferably one with this feature) and move the connections over to it one-by-one until I find the offender. If I have to go that route, I highly doubt the Orbi would get reconnected. Which is a shame because it is a pretty decent solution for everything else. I would like for Netgear to seriously consider giving customers an option for this data. There are many ways to do it, but ANY of them would be acceptable to me. I'm a long-time networking pro, so even if these are scary for some people, at least it would be an option. Do the metering in the device with display of the statistics in the interface and in the app. This is obviously going to make the most customers happy because it would give us a report per-device of the usage. This isn't rocket science: Even if the device has a database limitation of 100 devices to monitor, or even 50, it would be useful. COMCAST does it on their modem devices for xFi. It can't be that hard. Do the metering externally by providing SNMP statistics on a per-device basis for smaller timeframes. This would mean that the Orbi doesn't have to store "dead" devices forever and would be up to whatever stat-gathering tool was used. Do the metering externally by providing some app that collects the data to a desktop. Maybe Java so you can hit Windows, Linux, and Mac all at once with it. Provide traffic mirroring to a selected wired port. This would at least give me the ability to plug in Wireshark or other tools to see what is going on. It would be super useful for troubleshooting intermittent issues and not just bandwidth monitoring. Provide netflow/sflow output to a collector on the home network. This would also have broader uses than just bandwidth monitoring, but it is potentially the hardest to use solution in this list. If it is easy to implement in the Orbi (i.e., the chips already support it), then I'll take it happily. Other things I haven't mentioned. Look, I'm desperate, here. I will find a way to use anything that helps. I get 2 months free "warnings" from Comcast, but the cost of not knowing this outweighs replacing the Orbi. Once I start getting charged $10/50 Gig, I'm going to need to know right then and there. And if I don't have a reasonable answer by that time, another Orbi will be going out to eBay.58KViews510likes195CommentsPlease provide more 5GHZ wifi channel options - restricting to channels 36-48 is too limiting
I live in London in the UK and nearly every house nearby has wifi and growth of 5GHZ routers is growing rapidly - the WiFI explorer application on my Mac is picking up at least 13 wifi signals on channels 36-48 and around half of those have a signal strength of over 50% in my house. But there are hardly any routers using the 52-64 channels. Now I understand Orbi uses some of the 5GHZ channels for the backhaul, but surley there is enough space above channel 48 to support the backhaul and allow a 5GHZ wifi signal for devices so you can get a more reliable and stable connection on 5GHZ - which is the whole point of having a fast 'mesh' router as all my main devices support 5GHZ and I have a 200Mpbs broadband connection. But the interference in the 5GHZ channels means my devices often default back to 2.4GHZ channels which kills the speed I can get down to around 50-70Mpbs vs the full 200Mpbs possible on the 5GHZ channel. I used to have a Apple Airport Extreme and to be honest it could deliver a better 5GHZ signal throughout my whole house because it could use channels above 48 - and that was having the Airport on the ground floor and I live in a three-story house made of brick walls and the signal would reach the loft just fine! Please Orbi team try and fix this as it is a major design flaw for most people in busy urban areas with lots of routers in the 5GHZ band - I don't really mind if it's a manual option or the Orbi is more intelligent and can automatically shuffle around use of the 5GHZ channels for the back-haul and wifi, but restricting use of wifi to just 4 channels makes the system no better than an Airport Extreme that is over 5 years old for my use case - hardly cutting edge performance as Negear claim and it is definately not living up to the marketing strap line of "Better Wifi. Everywhere"!20KViews82likes41CommentsOrbi 770 Lacking Controls - upvotes needed
This is a call for developers to include some more granular control over the Orbi 770, to include some of the controls seem in previous netgear routers the more upvotes the better please: Fast Roaming (802.11k/v/r) Helps reduce Wi-Fi bouncing between APs Band Steering toggle Forces clients to stay on optimal band (2.4 vs 5 GHz) Per-band SSID naming Used for testing roaming & band selection stability IGMP Snooping toggle Controls multicast flooding, useful for smart home QoS (Quality of Service) Prioritizes certain traffic (streaming, voice, etc.) Power output Adjust the strength of the wifi radio Client steering control Lets you force devices to specific APs or bands Individual device roaming controls Prevents sticky client behavior Individual band controls Granular control over each Band Channel width control for 5 GHz Locking to 80 MHz or 40 MHz instead of 160 MHz Wi-Fi DFS toggle (Radar Channel Control) Helps avoid radar interference on DFS channels65Views0likes0Commentsthe ability to pin a device to the Orbi router
I would love to be able to "pin" a device to the Orbi router instead of it connecting to the satellite. I have a bluray player that I want always connected to the router instead of the satellite in the other room, however wired connection is not an option at this time. My previous Nighthawk system was able to do this.296Views0likes2CommentsOrbi 770 - Enable/Disable joining wifi
For Orbi mesh systems with Parental Control features enabled, it would be great if the ability of new devices to join the network can be controlled. A on/off switch would be practical for locking the known device set or allow new ones to join. This is a spin of the old-fashioned MAC filtering - which is available in absence of Parental Control feature. I see this on/off locking switch approach as more user friendly and enhanced security overall - less tech savvy users don't need to mess around with MAC addresses; they just need to lock the network.63Views0likes0Comments