NETGEAR Orbi - WiFi System App Software

I am blown away by the Orbi system. I switched from a normal tri-band router to this 2 satellite orbi (three piece unit) because I was unable to stream two roku sticks at one time. I have a three story home with one orbi unit on each floor. Not only are my streaming devices spit fire fast, but I’ve got noticeably faster upload and download speeds to my Xbox one console, my computer, work laptop, the families laptops, our tablets and cell phones. The app is easy to use and understand allowing me to password protect the router, check on the net time and traffic, and even check my speeds and diagnose connectivity with the tap of a block. If my net is down because of the fiber optic work the phone company is doing, my 4g/lte still allows me to connect to the unit! All in all it’s a very... VERY... powerful unit for what I believe is an affordable price. I feel like I spend less time working on the families computers and more time enjoying them and our streaming services. If you’re a multi level home or a multi player household, or even if you just have lots of friends, family, or company in your home, orbi is a must have in my book.

I’ve been a fan and a user of netgear routers and modems for years and decided to try out an Orbi system in my house. While it’s probably overkill for my place, being a gadget junkie, I needed to get one to get my fix for something new to play with. Setup was easy and was up and running within 15 minutes. No issues with any of my devices that only run on 2.4ghz and everything else connected like it should. Had it up for a week now and only issue I see is the app and I take off two stars since NETGEAR should be better than this at this point. Why do some of my devices completely disappear from the list connected devices in the orbi app?? They are definitely connected cause I can control them with their respective app but they disappear from the orbi app for absolutely no reason. This is amateur level programming on netgears part and I’ve never had this issue while using the Nighthawk app with my nighthawk router. Seems trivial and shouldn’t make a difference since everything needs to work like it should.

Well my last router I had was a eero I really liked it when I had 300 mbps plan. Than I moved to 1 gig speed but the eero could not handle the speed. Than I read about WiFi 6 and it could handle 100 devices and handle 10 or 12 devices at once without losing speed.. I had to have it. I set up Orbi very simple and set up right away. At first speed was at 500 mbps but as it settled in my iPad wirelessly running 400 mbps and my step son wired his computer into Orbi and he’s running 960 mbps.. love it finally have a router that can handle 1 gig speed.... come on 5G I am ready now!! It’s very expensive but honestly if you can afford it it’s worth it.. I was just wasting money on 1 gig speed because I just find the right router. I have it now.. we usually have 20 devices and more on our router and eero did a good job managing what devices were used but kids with Xbox pull so much from your internet also 10+ devices the eero could not hold speed.. Orbi WiFi eats up all devices and spits it out....handles it all... very happy.