Despite these being one of the older and more puny mesh systems in the netgear orbi range, i believe they are quite possibly the best deal around for the money right now. I have for 5 years had an early mesh system which recently needed frequent reboo...  Read More

Wifi signal stability and coverage is noticeably better. I have a 1gb line, and the house has 300mb on the first and second floor. Some newer models with more whizzy stuff but in principal all doing the same job.

How to connect an orbi mesh system to a modem/router. The modem part connects to the internet and the router part provides your wired/wireless network. It has four sockets for cable connection to pc's etc.

The wifi performance is marginally better (and only very marginally, at that) - but the netgear’s range is considerably poorer and the connection is highly unreliable. Once a device has an ip address it will hold onto it and orbi will not allocate the...  Read More

The orbi app is very limited in its scope, and seems to be nothing more than a giant advert to try and sell you the additional security features. The armor utility is pretty incomprehensible and as i use a mac and ipad's i suspect that it is just scar...  Read More

This is a costly system but the quality no longer reflects the price. Don't believe review sites where they have affiliate links and prices, they are only interested in making money, not giving a balanced review. honestly, don't bother.

Satellites have to be within 8 meter of base station/router for good coverage. No thick stone walls, in fact most are stud walls. These are useless at the moment as i can't get them to connect with a good enough signal.

After sale support is unbelievably bad. Their whole business model seems to be selling overpriced hardware and then charging you to fix it.