Orbi Pro AC3000 WiFi 5 Tri-Band WiFi System (SRK60)

One exception to this is Orbi Pro. They’re hard to find and expensive, but I’ve been using them at home for the past few years. They’ve been rock solid. I did add wired backhauls this weekend and saw a significant performance benefit. I do expect to switch to TP-Link Omada at some point.

Went mesh 3 years ago. Never felt better. Orbi Pro here. Another party trick is the cost of the thing. Always gets attention 😋

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.

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.