I bought this to replace a Google mesh system that I bought to replace Ubiquity mesh system. The Ubiquity system wasn't bad but in a 2 level double brick house, we needed 7 satellites to get an average signal across the house. The Google Nest mesh system had the same result except its interface is so dumbed down that you can't do anything like port forwarding or VPN.
The biggest difference with the Orbi system is that it is about the only domestic grade mesh system available that has wired backhaul. This means that you can plug each satellite into your hard wired network so it isn't trying to contact the router via wireless. In our new house which is 3 levels with a concrete floor between 2 of the levels having wired backhaul means that there is 100% signal strength across the whole house. Wired backhaul also means that data going back through the router isn't using any wireless bandwidth. It also means on a large property you could run a network cable underground out to a shed or outbuilding and plug in a satellite and then you have full wireless strength even though you may be well away from your main router. In mesh systems without backhaul I found that for far away areas the satellite would have to daisy chain back to the main router which created a massive drop off in speed and reliability.
Setup was a breeze and the speed is amazing, I'm easily getting 520mbps wirelessly across the house. It has a great feature where you can have all your smart home devices on a separate wireless network which is good security-wise. I bought an additional satellite to go outside in a weatherproof box so now with 1 router and 3 satellites I have 100% signal strength across our 10,000ft2 block and 3 level house. It's what wireless was always promised to be but never delivered until now.
The phone app is very good and it has a great feature where you can see and control your network even when you are out of the house. The web interface to the router is good and allows a lot of control over permissions and data usage by device and user on the network so you can say prioritize your apple TV device so no matter what others are doing on your network you don't get caching when you are trying to watch a 4k movie.
My only gripe is Netgear only offers 90 days of technical support unless you pay monthly for support. I would agree if it is novice support on network setup but when it is due to a firmware update that has dozens of reports on their chat pages of having issues I don't think you should have to pay to get a simple answer as to whether the firmware upgrade should be rolled back to solve a particular problem. Especially when you have paid thousands to buy the mesh system.
The backhaul is 2.5gbe which is unbelievably fast so if you plug your PC into one of the 4 data points provided on each satellite and you are using backhaul you can have file transfer rates of 250Mbps across your network (as long as if you are using a switch the switch must be at least 2.5gbe). I put in a 10GBe switch and now our home network and wireless is comparable to enterprise-level fast.
Netgear do offer an Armor subscription that you can then install on your computer and then the router and the software offer a very high level of malware and intrusion protection. However, I found that it was so intrusive that it blocked a lot of legitimate programs and operations so I uninstalled it.
It is crazy expensive for a home wireless setup but in all fairness, it is so much better than everything else I've tried, the wired backhaul alone is worth the price of entry.
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| number of ports | 10 | — | 6 | — | 6 | — |
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| lan port bandwidth | 6 ghz | — | 10 Gigabit Ethernet | 10 Gbps | Gigabit Ethernet | — |
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Performance to the max, but expected from a $1400 mesh system. Plus, I have some ideas!
I have no regrets and hopefully this system preforms for many years, and, "future proof" may be an over-used term but it's basically another word for a hope and a prayer. My system I think is pretty normal; the one thing that may stand out is I ran Cat-8 for the one wired backhaul, overkill yes, but maybe in place for the next generation router/mesh network system. The other satellite I had to use the wireless backhaul as it was out in a sunroom beyond any wall access or cable pulling (it did have 110v in-wall however that I took advantage of, in pic you'll see no wires and that looks really nice).This brings me to my only negative... these satellites are NOT "self healing" meaning their connection back to the main router unit doesn't always reconnect automatically. If you trip the breaker that (in my case, the Sunroom), you're Ship out of luck, it won't self heal or remake the connection. You will manually have to repair the connection by re-paring both the router and the satellite.... Now, if you lose power all at once (like a local power outage), when power is restored, all the units {usually} will come back on in the blinking white mode and make communication and re-establish the connection. Hopefully a firmware update can fix the issue of losing 1 (or both) satellites and get them to self heal and reconnect on their own.My 2 cents for a future update (other than the self healing connections mentioned above)... is to have the LED connection lights optionally on (all the time) by a user settings. Being the constant Blue indicator LED; meaning a connection between nodes is successful and being upheld... this would be nice to see full time. Then, you could tell when you've lost a satellite and it's not communicating with the router. You can see this ONLY if you have the app up or the Internet access portal actively displaying, but, in real life, how often will you or do you have this actively displayed?This would be minimal on the power consumption and as mentioned could be triggered on or off (full time) as per your user setting.... plus that blue light looks really cool when on for the 2 minutes initially it's on. For the router, if it loses a incoming modem signal, it constantly displays a magneta color. THIS is very HANDY and USEFUL!. So, 5 Stars with some wiggle room for improvement :)Anyways, the good outweighs the bad by a landslide. You won't be disappointed in the RBKE960's performance or aesthetics/looks.--------------my system as pictured in order------------Satellite in Sunroom w wireless backhaul, power fed in-wall and hidden :-)Satellite in isolated 2 car garage w 100' Cat-8 wired backhaul.Main Router unit in Studio, I use the window curtain as a cable "masking" lol.
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This brings me to my only negative... these satellites are NOT "self healing" meaning their connection back to the main router unit doesn't always reconnect automatically. If you trip the breaker that (in my case, the Sunroom), you're Ship out of luck, it won't self heal or remake the connection. You will manually have to repair the connection by re-paring both the router and the satellite.... Now, if you lose power all at once (like a local power outage), when power is restored, all the units {usually} will come back on in the blinking white mode and make communication and re-establish the connection. Hopefully a firmware update can fix the issue of losing 1 (or both) satellites and get them to self heal and reconnect on their own.
My 2 cents for a future update (other than the self healing connections mentioned above)... is to have the LED connection lights optionally on (all the time) by a user settings. Being the constant Blue indicator LED; meaning a connection between nodes is successful and being upheld... this would be nice to see full time. Then, you could tell when you've lost a satellite and it's not communicating with the router. You can see this ONLY if you have the app up or the Internet access portal actively displaying, but, in real life, how often will you or do you have this actively displayed?
This would be minimal on the power consumption and as mentioned could be triggered on or off (full time) as per your user setting.... plus that blue light looks really cool when on for the 2 minutes initially it's on. For the router, if it loses a incoming modem signal, it constantly displays a magneta color. THIS is very HANDY and USEFUL!. So, 5 Stars with some wiggle room for improvement :)
Anyways, the good outweighs the bad by a landslide. You won't be disappointed in the RBKE960's performance or aesthetics/looks.
--------------my system as pictured in order------------
Satellite in Sunroom w wireless backhaul, power fed in-wall and hidden :-)
Satellite in isolated 2 car garage w 100' Cat-8 wired backhaul.
Main Router unit in Studio, I use the window curtain as a cable "masking" lol.
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Performance to the max, but expected from a $1400 mesh system. Plus, I have some ideas!
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
I have no regrets and hopefully this system preforms for many years, and, "future proof" may be an over-used term but it's basically another word for a hope and a prayer. My system I think is pretty normal; the one thing that may stand out is I ran Cat-8 for the one wired backhaul, overkill yes, but maybe in place for the next generation router/mesh network system. The other satellite I had to use the wireless backhaul as it was out in a sunroom beyond any wall access or cable pulling (it did have 110v in-wall however that I took advantage of, in pic you'll see no wires and that looks really nice).Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
This brings me to my only negative... these satellites are NOT "self healing" meaning their connection back to the main router unit doesn't always reconnect automatically. If you trip the breaker that (in my case, the Sunroom), you're Ship out of luck, it won't self heal or remake the connection. You will manually have to repair the connection by re-paring both the router and the satellite.... Now, if you lose power all at once (like a local power outage), when power is restored, all the units {usually} will come back on in the blinking white mode and make communication and re-establish the connection. Hopefully a firmware update can fix the issue of losing 1 (or both) satellites and get them to self heal and reconnect on their own.
My 2 cents for a future update (other than the self healing connections mentioned above)... is to have the LED connection lights optionally on (all the time) by a user settings. Being the constant Blue indicator LED; meaning a connection between nodes is successful and being upheld... this would be nice to see full time. Then, you could tell when you've lost a satellite and it's not communicating with the router. You can see this ONLY if you have the app up or the Internet access portal actively displaying, but, in real life, how often will you or do you have this actively displayed?
This would be minimal on the power consumption and as mentioned could be triggered on or off (full time) as per your user setting.... plus that blue light looks really cool when on for the 2 minutes initially it's on. For the router, if it loses a incoming modem signal, it constantly displays a magneta color. THIS is very HANDY and USEFUL!. So, 5 Stars with some wiggle room for improvement :)
Anyways, the good outweighs the bad by a landslide. You won't be disappointed in the RBKE960's performance or aesthetics/looks.
--------------my system as pictured in order------------
Satellite in Sunroom w wireless backhaul, power fed in-wall and hidden :-)
Satellite in isolated 2 car garage w 100' Cat-8 wired backhaul.
Main Router unit in Studio, I use the window curtain as a cable "masking" lol.
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