Orbi AC2200 Tri-band WiFi System (RBK40)

I love my my Netgear Orbi RBR40 (AC2200) it is a tri-band Wi-Fi 5 mesh router designed for medium-to-large homes, offering up to 4,000 sq ft of coverage when paired with satellites. I have 2 satellites One on the 1st floor & One in the basement. I've had it for years*... and the plaster & lath walls don't reduce connectivity anywhere in the house. I will say that since I moved into my current home the wifi signal doesn't extend as far into the yard as it did in my last houses that were modern builds with drywall... but otherwise I have no complaints. *I bought it when it first came out so 2017 I think

Same. my original Orbi from precovid was garbage performance originally, but after about 6-8 months of continual firmware upgrade was WONDERFUL and blindly fast 880 on a 1GB , symmetric up/down . Rock solid unflappable. But, they stopped updating any firmware and my security software was screaming at me to patch holes. So I researched and almost no one can deal with the new Netgear stuff you and others mention here. So, I went with a pair of Asus ROG GT6's... Stable but otherwise disappointing performance. fantastic tweaking software, but despite this, just 'meh' overall. highly asymmetric performance: fast-ish – still only slightly faster than HALF of what the 5 year old Netgear got on the download. And it's horrible on the upload. So seriously disappointed in Asus. Everyone seems to think Ubiquiti is the best (within reason) and I'm going to sell my Asus Stuff and try that too. Thanks for your info.

I've had several meshes, all using wireless backhaul. First I had the Netgear Orbi mesh (wifi-5) that worked well for a few months, then Netgear made firmware upgrades mandatory, and put out some really bad firmware. Went to eero (wifi-5) after that, and that one never did work well for me. It worked, but not as well as I thought that it should have. I tried the eero Pro 6 mesh (wifi-6), and that was never stable. After that it was the Asus ZenWiFi AX (wifi-6), which worked really well here. The mesh that I'm using now, the ZenWiFi BT10 (wifi-7) is also working really well...the wireless MLO backhaul is very fast and has been stable. About as close to wired backhaul as I've seen, the speed at the remote node is very close to my ISP's provisioned speed. The latest firmware for the BT10 mesh has been great, but it took a few versions to get the degree of stability that I want. So, for me, yes, there have been ups and downs, but the Asus ZenWiFi meshes have been the best that I've had. Both have worked great with wireless backhaul, which is what I need. And have been stable and have provided whole house wireless coverage.

I went from an old Orbi RB system to the 770 and have loved it! Sorry to hear so many haven’t. But so far it’s been great for me all around.

A tri-radio mesh AP has a dedicated “backhaul” radio, so client traffic and mesh traffic run on different channels and don’t have to take turns. On dual-radio systems, both client data and backhaul share the same channel—so when a client sends data, the AP has to receive it and then retransmit it on that same channel. Because Wi-Fi is half-duplex (only one device can talk at a time), that effectively cuts available airtime and throughput. The third radio avoids that bottleneck by separating those conversations.

Not quite dedicated. Eero has tri radio but it’s not solely dedicated to mesh backhaul. They have an algorithm that will switch backhaul between those 3 radios based on load. So there could be a scenario where clients and mesh backhaul are on the same shared radio or they could be separate (dynamically). If you get the tri radio version and trust the algorithm you should be ok. Orbi tri radio and quad radio products however spec dedicated backhaul radio.