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What you can expect with your Orbi system
I'm writing this mainly because a post like this would have saved me a lot of time and effort. If you're thinking about buying an Orbi system, or recently purchased one, here's a few things you can e...
I suspect most of the people who made it as far as this forum already tried disabling all the added features to get better stability, and, like me, found it made no difference. Of course it begs the question if I have to disable key selling points like MIMO and beam-forming, why did I buy this product in the first place?
Sadly, it appears the majority of users are not seeing these issues (yet), and posting 5 star reviews on Amazon. Just in the past few days there have been dozens of 5 star reviews, so any lower ratings are drowned out in the noise. I'm guessing people post immediately, and even if they later see the problems don't come back to revise their review. Will be interesting to see if more people end up here after time passes.
There are many factors and variables and many environments that can impact router and wireless HW and operations. The HW works as its stands. It's when it's set up by users and the environments that will start to see various issues that need to be identified to see where the real issues are. This has been going on with routers and wireless devices since they first came to market. Problems still happen. The forums are here to help each other find out where the real problems are and maybe help resolve them. Many devices depending upon sign by all the various Mfrs, may not work well with new features like Beamforming, Smart Connect or MIMO. So offering troubleshooting options is to help see weather if the system can work better with some of these disabled. It's up to users weather or not to try them.
Users can talk all day about how good or bad theres work. It all comes down to what really works and where the real problem is.
rphsiawrote:I suspect most of the people who made it as far as this forum already tried disabling all the added features to get better stability, and, like me, found it made no difference. Of course it begs the question if I have to disable key selling points like MIMO and beam-forming, why did I buy this product in the first place?
Sadly, it appears the majority of users are not seeing these issues (yet), and posting 5 star reviews on Amazon. Just in the past few days there have been dozens of 5 star reviews, so any lower ratings are drowned out in the noise. I'm guessing people post immediately, and even if they later see the problems don't come back to revise their review. Will be interesting to see if more people end up here after time passes.