Orbi Pro AX6000 Tri-band WiFi System

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.

Check Facebook marketplace. I was able to find and Orbi 2pck of WiFi 6 for $80. Works perfectly

My parents have same kind of house, with their Xfinity broadband in the 3rd floor TV room. I ran Cat6 across the back down to the 1st floor for back haul and an Orbi WiFi6 mesh router now gives great signal house-wide (yard too!)

I’ve used before netgear Orbi mesh WiFi 6 router with two satellites. Worked well. Expensive but I guess was worth. Still use it now in the apartment but with one satellite in the bedroom only just in case

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.