NETGEAR - Orbi 370 Series Dual-Band WiFi 7 Mesh System (3-pack)
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"I have a 2 story 2350sf house. I have an Orbi with the master AP upstairs in the hall covering all the bedrooms rooms. Downstairs I have 2 Orbi Client APs on either end of the house covering all the downstairs, garage, and outside. ... I’ve never had any issues with coverage or bandwidth."
"I download 50tb a month on my server and steam Plex to nearly ten simultaneous users this way. Never had any issues relating to the wifi side of it."
"I to connected all my slower devices to my LOT 2.4ghz only network. Works exactly the way it's supposed to"
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"As far as *hardware* goes, the Orbi is a good premium mesh system ... my best performing wireless devices I've owned were my nighthawk and my Orbi. ... Out of desperation I dropped a lot on a 4 station orbi triband and it just worked so well out of the box. ... I have a 3,000 sqft home so 4 strategically placed APs wirelessly connected to each other over the dedicated 5ghz third band works really well."
"a good quality mesh like Netgear 6e or 7 will have a dedicated wireless backbone channel and be miles better than any client pcie or USB wifi adapter."
"the good mesh systems use a dedicated backhaul with 5 and 6 ghz which is what gives them the stability and speed."
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"I download 50tb a month on my server and steam Plex to nearly ten simultaneous users this way. Never had any issues relating to the wifi side of it."
"if the mesh nodes are within range and have a 6ghz band they should be able to provide near 'ethernet' speeds over WiFi."
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"If you want good enough, simple outta the box, then Orbi mesh is great. ... It’s been dead simple to administer."
"the mesh works so much better, both in coverage, speed, and ease of use."
"the mesh works so much better, both in coverage, speed, and ease of use."
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"I have a 2 story 2350sf house. I have an Orbi with the master AP upstairs in the hall covering all the bedrooms rooms. Downstairs I have 2 Orbi Client APs on either end of the house covering all the downstairs, garage, and outside. ... I’ve never had any issues with coverage or bandwidth."
"The furthest room away from the primary is the “throne room” in the master bathroom. I get awesome signal and because of that, three units are not excessive for a 2,000ish sqft house ;)"
"Deployed 2 Orbis with wireless backhaul in my brothers house that is an open floor plan and he have the best coverage ever."
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"Netgear told me to factory reset after every firmware update. It took over one hour every time…They write it in every forum thread. They never fixed their firmware. This was an awful experience."
"If the power went out, it wouldn’t come back on until after I manually unplugged."
"I've had mine almost 2 years and have many times wanted to throw it out the window of a moving car."
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"Netgear told me to factory reset after every firmware update. It took over one hour every time…They write it in every forum thread. They never fixed their firmware. This was an awful experience."
"I've tried Orbi several times over the last few hardware generations and it had been the same shitty experience for me each time. It seemed there was always something up with it"
"NG severely nerfed the software for power users (I'm a network admin by trade) ... you need a dedicated and better gateway with actual features"
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"Netgear told me to factory reset after every firmware update. It took over one hour every time…They write it in every forum thread. They never fixed their firmware. This was an awful experience."
"I've tried Orbi several times over the last few hardware generations and it had been the same shitty experience for me each time. It seemed there was always something up with it"
"constantly buggy and dropping out"
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"Netgear told me to factory reset after every firmware update. It took over one hour every time…They write it in every forum thread. They never fixed their firmware. This was an awful experience."
"If the power went out, it wouldn’t come back on until after I manually unplugged."
"Stops for no reason. ... Latency spikes."
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"Netgear told me to factory reset after every firmware update. It took over one hour every time…They write it in every forum thread. They never fixed their firmware. This was an awful experience."
"I would have probably kept going with Orbi if I could call support, but you need to buy a subscription from netgear!"
"their support was absolutely horrible"
07GTStallion 1.0I bought the 370 and wifi was ok at best and wired was horrible. With my old TP link router on a wired ethernet connection I got around 700-900mbps (I pay for 2G internet through Cox) and with the orbi 370 router it was blocked to 60-80mps wired. I know my way around this equipment and after hours and hours of troubleshooting and shity tech support from India (Netgear) I sent it back. It's a firmware issue they can't solve.
Epsioln_Rho_Rho 1.0I got a 370 series and I am pleasantly surprised how good it is so far.
purespeed44 1.0Most mesh systems take a few days to adjust and will move channels until it finds the best scenario. Netgear orbi’s do this as well as the eero systems. But once there fully optimized they should be set it and forget it and just work. Speed fluctuations are normal but I did find the eero did have less speed than my netgear with identical locations and settings. So I reset the eero from scratch and then the speed was where it needed to be. I believe it has something to do with firmware as I get the feeling the updates don’t always go well with some older firmware lingering after the upgrade. Reset seems to clear it out
The 770 870 and 970 are all just hot garbage. The firmware is absolutely atrocious. I had a customer want the 770 for there home I said ok but there not very reliable at the moment they wanted it anyway. It took 3 days and they got fed up with it then they decided they wanted the 373 series and lone behold it actually worked better than the higher end models and hasn’t been a problem for them go figure. I actually installed another 373 series a week ago for a friend of mine and that one is also very solid. My only conclusion is it’s something in the firmware of the true wifi 7 models that have 6ghz band. The 373 doesn’t have the 6ghz band but as a dual band system it performs well from what I have seen so far.
Only one I have had any success with is the 370 series which isn’t a true WiFi 7 system as it’s missing the 6ghz. Had a customer telling me they wanted the 770 I told them it was very unstable but they insisted so I set it up for them with wired backhaul and not even 3 days later they requested something else. I returned the 770 got them the 373 as they have no wifi 7 or 6E devices and it’s been flawless for them. I think the wifi 7 systems will get better in time but right now there a firmware horror show and it’s not just netgear either
Only one I have had any success with is the 370 series which isn’t a true WiFi 7 system as it’s missing the 6ghz. Had a customer telling me they wanted the 770 I told them it was very unstable but they insisted so I set it up for them with wired backhaul and not even 3 days later they requested something else. I returned the 770 got them the 373 as they have no wifi 7 or 6E devices and it’s been flawless for them. I think the wifi 7 systems will get better in time but right now there a firmware horror show and it’s not just netgear either
Agreed I have put 2 in so far for customers one of them was the 373 the other was the 374 and they are actually really good makes me wonder if the firmware issues with the other wifi 7 systems has something to do with 6ghz band and how it’s being implemented in firmware
Agreed I have put 2 in so far for customers one of them was the 373 the other was the 374 and they are actually really good makes me wonder if the firmware issues with the other wifi 7 systems has something to do with 6ghz band and how it’s being implemented in firmware
bluealien78 0.2Orbi 7 here. Works flawlessly.
OneOrangeTreeLLC 0.2My experience with the Orbi 7 mesh router wasn’t entirely positive. I wouldn’t recommend it to others.
alienrides 0.1Get an Orbi Wifi 7 router with two satellites. I struggled with WiFi routers for a long time in my house until I discovered Orbi. Expensive, but you won't regret it.
a_lot_of_faffin 0.1Orbi Wi-Fi 7 products perform incredibly well compared to older Netgear products I’ve had. Downsides are they’re expensive, physically big and unless you have a complex house layout, they may be overkill.
bruceanderson5 0.1I have an Orbi Wifi 7 Mesh and it works well for me. Might want to think twice about TP Link. The government is considering a ban. [https://www.wired.com/story/tp-link-router-ban-investigation/](https://www.wired.com/story/tp-link-router-ban-investigation/)
Guru00006 0.1Yep I got mine in October. 0 issues unless j forget to do a firmware update. I to connected all my slower devices to my LOT 2.4ghz only network. Works exactly the way it's supposed to
MrJimBusiness- 0.1I've used Netgear Orbi, Eero, and Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi 7 systems all long term. If you want an excellent ecosystem all behind one very sleek pane of glass WITH better performance and reliability and control than the other stuff, just get UniFi. The only caveat is lack of a dedicated wireless backhaul channel but this is often inconsequential because of better range and overall bandwidth. If you want to set it and forget it and have tolerance when a forced botched firmware update is pushed with no rollback option, consider Eero.
It's completely ignorant. With the better range and speeds on my UniFi APs versus the Eero and Orbi Wi-Fi 7 stuff I ran before, my mesh performance on the one AP I don't have hard wired is BETTER despite having no dedicated backhaul channel / SSID. The link speed is higher, actual throughput to the AP is higher as tested from it itself and Ethernet bridged devices, and Wi-Fi clients have better speeds. I feel like people haven't really tried the competition... I did long-term, and they suck ass. From absolutely unworkable bugs to flaky performance, there's nothing I miss about either Orbi or Eero.
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