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.
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 hated the WiFi 6 Orbi system I bought. It was lacking so many fairly basic features, such as QoS, firmware updates breaking basic functionality, and a very lackluster app-focused experience.
I replaced it with an ASUS WiFi 7 system comprised of a RoG router with two Zen nodes and it’s been a lot more solid with far more configuration options than I’ve ever seen on a residential router.
Maybe the Orbi WiFi 7 line has solved their earlier issues, but I’ll never buy one again based on my prior experience.
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
Orbi is fine. Your problem is the wireless backhaul between the two access points. The only way to make it better is to run ethernet or add more orbi access points to improve the mesh backhaul. You will add latency and spend more money by adding more acces points. It would be fine for doomscrolling, not great for competitive games.
If you have coax cable run throughout the house you can try MOCA adapters or ethernet over powerline.
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Easy, reliable, smart home ready; but paid features.
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