NETGEAR RBK53S,

Detailed review and a few points on set up Have a virgin media hub which is fine when close to it. However as it is placed in middle floor bedroom, it was fine up and down but poor in the back room downstairs and in the garden. Having tried the Archer router, that just wasn’t reaching but also, it kept dropping internet connection. Thoroughly researching Orbi, I did note potential issues with both the Ring doorbell and potentially Sky Q. Despite dreading the set up, I took the plunge and started set up on Saturday morning expecting a full day of trial and error. I was done in an hour and most of that was spent connecting the sky boxes and tv’s again. Really simple when following the app. Don’t deviate from the app instructions though. What a piece of kit! I am blown away by the power. I’ve got 350mbs coming into the house. Wherever I am in the house I am getting in excess of 200mbs everywhere including at the back of the garden. The speed of course fluctuates but with the satellite in the back room, it’s generally sending consistent tests of 300, 310, 320mbs in there. In the middle room downstairs and the second floor (only a satellite on ground floor), the speed is not dropping below 150mbs and comes in consistently at over 200mbs. Put into perspective, In the same places, the virgin hub alone was generating no more than around 40mbs in those same areas, max. Too early to talk about reliability but the virgin hub was struggling with so many connections - 2 gamers online, one daughter watching Netflix and the other half working on the laptop. So far, the orbi is handling around 30 devices and having no issues. One bit of advice on set up - when putting the Virgin hub in modem mode, the orbi may tell you there’s no internet. Leave the app on that screen, Pull all power wires from the virgin hub, leave five minutes and then turn on again. Wait and then the orbi should then pick it up automatically. Yes it is just under £100 more than the TP-Link Archer router but in my opinion, it’s a worthwhile investment over anything else. The speeds are incredible. They aren’t too ugly either in my opinion. Whether it’s extended range, better performance or a mesh system, I highly highly recommend this. I haven’t needed tech support but scored a 5 as app is easy enough.

I’ve got BT Fibre broadband (home hub 5) which connected about 50 devices...including Philips Hue, Sonos, Sky Q, Xbox, Alexa and a number of Apple devices. I used Powerline plugs to connect the main Sky Q and Xbox devices to the hub. The home hub worked okay but the wifi speeds would often drop out. I found I was turning the Powerline plugs off and on to restore connections and in worst case scenarios rebooting the router itself. The Orbi Wifi router and 2 x Orbi Satellites was a lot of money but well worth the investment. I luckily had an OpenReach broadband fibre modem in the loft from when I first had my broadband connection. I found Orbi struggled to work with the Homehub even in AP mode. However once I overcame that hurdle, the rest of the setup was very straightforward. I plugged the Wifi router into the modem (as per the clear instructions), waited for the Orbi router to shine a solid white and plugged the Ethernet cable from the router into my PC so I could complete the wizard based setup. Don’t worry though, its also possible to do this by connecting to its wifi siid and default password. The setup was very easy and of course if you rename the siid to match what your wifi was before...and use the same password, then all your existing devices at home will just start to work again without having to re-enter any details. All that was left to do was to put my other two satellites in the house. One was on the landing upstairs and the other was in the lounge and you turn these on and they connect automatically which is confirmed when the light on these turns a solid blue (which doesn’t stay on forever). The wifi signal has been really strong, fast and reliable ever since...for all my devices. The only consideration will be if your existing router is a combined modem and wifi router (e.g. BT home Hub). Its possible to turn off the wifi for the home hub...but Orbi still Struggled until I replaced it with just the OpenReach modem which then had an ethernet cable from the modem to the Orbi router. After that, its been brilliant. Maybe other home routers (other than BT) may have better config options to allow it to become a modem only setup, allowing Orbi to focus on being a Wifi router....which with its three channels, it does really well. I recommend!

Top au niveau rapidité (jusqu'à 350Mb/s) . Top au niveau répartition signal entre base et satellite donc le récepteur (ordi, téléphone...) reçois toujours le meilleur signal possible.

Great product. Works like a charm!

Good product

I’m new to setting up home WiFi and this was a breeze for me! Connection speed increased dramatically. Update of software is also hassle free via the app. Just 1 small thing to note, the Netgear Armor security kept spitting out 3 pages of gibberish on my network printer: I eventually disabled the additional security.

Perfetto. Ottimo prodotto. Installazione elementare e facilmente intuibile dall'app. Stabilizza la linea e consente di collegare più device senza degradare velocità e banda. Venditore ottimo, tempi di consegna rapidi e precisi. Tutto ottimo ‼️💯