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RBK50: When do we get the product we expected to buy?
I have a RBK50 and like many others I come to the conclusion that this product has nowhere lived up to the promise. I have the following issues: - RBS50 satellite wired connected to the RBK50 router not working reliable via an ethernet backhaul. The satellite is located at the upper floor of my house close to my daughters and it turns out that they go onto their 4G subscription a lot as the WiFi is not working (also with the latest released software of March 23th!). They have given up on letting me know that WiFi is not working as well; - When I update the firmware or reboot the Orbi system I most of the times get connection issues with wired devices like my ReadyNAS devices and IP camera. Apparently the Orbi system is overloading the wired network with a reboot. This makes you careful performing a reboot (should not be necessary of course) as a reboot will make sure I receive about 20+ e-mails from my NAS-es and the IP camera and at the same time the internet is very slow on all computers (also wired); -Guest network via a separate network via a VLAN is not possible. The current implementation is not what the industry standard is and how it should have been done, I can't understand why this is taking so long to resolve. Over the years I have replaced most of my equipment by Netgear equipment as I experienced that Netgear equipment just works. This Orbi set nevertheless is a different beast and is eating the confidence away I had on the brand Netgear. My advice to Netgear: if you have not resolved the issues by now and don't have a clue what it is: remove the product from the market and refund people who have one and make sure you only release products that actually work in the future. This is very bad for your brand name! Just my two cents in the discussions everywhere!