Pros & Cons
Pros
Signal strength is just phenomenal. There are so many walls, doors, furnitures, stairs between the two that the basement used to be a wifi dead zone. Spotty areas in my basement and some spotty area in some rooms.
Device is aesthetically sleek and minimal. My expectations have been wildly exceeded.
My internet service is 350mbps. Now downloading is uniformly at that level throughout the house. No more internet drop outs,. No more dead zones, no more rebooting.
Easy to set up and configure and with the mesh, wireless connectivity throughout house. Now i need to get the orbi to do some more traditional router stuff, get my security system setup (which involves port forwarding) easy to install. Easy to configu... Read More
Cons
The wifi is unstable, especially on mack ios devices. The satellite setup is horrible. Even though the app asks you to change the wifi name during setup to you personal name, dont until all setup is completed. Just over i month after purchase but 4 da... Read More
Highlights
Quality
After my purchase i will say that i am very happy with the results.
Overall very easy to set up with the app and it’s good value for the money.
This was not possible with the stock router/modem combo.
Bought these with the thought that i’d return it if it wasn’t good but man is it!
Price
I'm very happy with it considering the price was a bit high.
Price is also high for another satellite if you want to add some.
Price is a bit high, but you get what you pay for.
Packaging/appearance
I carefully preserved all the packaging when i opened it because i expected to send it back.
Competitiveness
We previously used a dir-890l (ac3200) router for a little over 6 years.
Right now we have about 45-50 devices connected, and 75% of them via wifi.
I loved (past tense) my expensive asus ac1200 wifi router but it isn’t the cream of the crop no more.
The 5ghz band can be turned off to help any devices that only function at 2.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 247 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 18 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was unable to log into the router from my iphone
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had to do a factory reset on the router and satellite and delete and reinstall the app on my iphone in order to set it up again from scratch
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then i still wasnt able to log into the router
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Id like to be able to sit in my backyard and access the internet
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It might cover 5000 square feet in a open barn but never in a home with all the walls and other interference
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Have had to order a second satellite to fill the weak space
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In one room it registers over 600 mbs and on other side of the wall less than100 mps
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The coverage is definitely over exaggerated but im hoping with the second satellite my problems will go away