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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"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."
"I had the same issue when I moved into my current home. I bought the Netgear Orbi mesh system with three satellites and it’s worked brilliantly for me"
"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 ;)"
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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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"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"
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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"
"Too much hassle after each update they got slower and slower."
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"Stops for no reason. ... Latency spikes."
"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."
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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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"Stops for no reason. ... Latency spikes."
"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 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.
r/orbi • Any good experiences with Orbi WiFi 7 mesh systems? ->I got a 370 series and I am pleasantly surprised how good it is so far.
r/orbi • Any good experiences with Orbi WiFi 7 mesh systems? ->Most 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
r/amazoneero • My thoughts on upgrading to Eero Max 7 (3-pack) from 2nd generation Eero (2017) ->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.
r/orbi • BEWARE: Orbi 770 is absolute trash. Netgear support is even worse. ->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
r/orbi • Any good experiences with Orbi WiFi 7 mesh systems? ->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
r/orbi • Any good experiences with Orbi WiFi 7 mesh systems? ->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
r/orbi • Any good experiences with Orbi WiFi 7 mesh systems? ->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
r/orbi • Any good experiences with Orbi WiFi 7 mesh systems? ->Orbi 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.
r/HomeKit • Eero vs Orbi vs ASUS (mesh WiFi 7)— HomeKit experiences? ->I 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/)
r/googlehome • What Mesh Wifi Is Everyone Using ? ->Yep 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
r/orbi • This brand is garbage. Please forward this to all Apple users. ->I have an orbi wifi 7 mesh system, it's not cheap but it works extremely well
r/WFH • Upgrading wfh set up! Mesh recommendations? ->Run away from orbi. I got the WiFi 7 and I hate it. Stops for no reason. Latency spikes. Needs rebooting (potentially DHCP issue). Weirdly crap firmware that doesn’t even confirm to its own documentation.
r/orbi • How does Orbi compare? ->In the process of ditching my 50 series Orbis now for similar outdoor expansion reasons. Bottom line, hardwired is always better and more stable unless a specific device has firmware or hardware issues like the new WIFI 7 Orbi series all have. Swapping all of my Orbi units with Grandstream's outdoor/indoor GWN7664ELR AX6000 wall/pole mount access points instead which have dual 2.5Gb ports for a redundant 5Gb lagg fiber optic & POE backhaul. My 50 series Orbis do still run great and rock stable 866Mb wifi at each satellite with CAT-6a wired backhaul. Netgear's current options could never accommodate the outdoors well for full bandwidth AND signal coverage even in their top tier models, wireless backhaul on any brand is trash if you have more than one room or any walls or floors in your house or trees outside between each node, slower and slower each node down the chain. The RBS50Y would be an entirely different contender if only it had a wired-backhaul port. Been using my Orbis in AP only mode with pfSense as my router for years now so migrating to more reliable simple access points was just one step away.
r/orbi • Connectivity with Outdoor Orbi - best solution? ->Wifi range extenders are the devil. They literally cut your speeds in half. Best thing to do is to get the Starlink Mesh units or a mesh wifi system such as the netgear Orbis.
r/Starlink • Alright i've set up the Wi-fi range extender, i've shown what starlink i have and all lights are blue, what do i do now? did i miss something? like something i'm spouse to do with the starlink? ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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