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Pros & Cons
Pros
The orbi 860s easily covers my 4000 sq ft living area! We are in an 1800 sq foot house and the coverage is monstrous, even outside. We have a 2700 square foot two story home and it reaches everywhere including outdoors.
Wifi speed <100mg/sec up and down with 1gb input from isp. Speeds are better, but not 900up and down better lol. The other password is if you want to log into the system on the internet. It is the first entry into your wifi network once it leaves y... Read More
Cons
System has some major flaws with the satellites connecting to the router. Coverage through the house was not up to the hype that is pitched in their advertising. Service is horrible.
The isp is not the issue. The problem is that the system needs to be rebooted constantly to maintain a good download speed. Then hold reset for 30 seconds the.
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Quality
I had no idea how bad it was until i installed this one and my signal was exponentially improved in all areas of our house and ... Read More
The signal strength within our home is very strong.
The address changes played hell with my network printers and storage for a few hours but nothing that couldn’t be resolved.
We are in an 1800 sq foot house and the coverage is monstrous, even outside.
Price
Shell out the money if you can afford it.
The orbi is a bit expensive, but worth the price for my needs.
Shipping
Input speed at router-331 mb/s up and 329 down.
Competitiveness
This is one of the most expensive wi fi solutions out there and i was hoping to see a vast improvement over the google mesh sys... Read More
Netgear threw me to tds who tossed me back to netgear after they said they do not help with third party routers.
Its parent company is well respected, cisco, and they do make a competitive wifi model similar to this netgear orbi.
I had a older lynksys wifi router which at its first offering was top of the line.
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However we started getting many dropped connections after a few years of using it
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Basically one password is for logging into your router
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The other password is if you want to log into the system on the internet
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There are passwords preassigned that are labeled under the main router and satellite router i bought both
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However i recommend changing the password as the preassigned passwords might be easy to hack
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I didnt know it was advised to not only have antivirus on your devices but also important to have security on the router itself
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Because that is the first entry into your wifi network once it leaves your modem from cable company into your base router
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This may be one of the reasons i was getting dropped wifi in my previous router because that is one the telltale signs of a possible hack in
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