Similar experience to mine with the 750P series. about 2 months after i bought it i noticed no internet, rebooted mutliple times nothing, couldnt access the unit on the app or the web management, full pin reset and it was back up, so i didnt think anything of it. 2 weeks later same issue. Called support they had me manually install the same firmware that was on the router and satillites, all good for about 6 weeks the it did it again. Previous tech said if it does it again they will RMA the router but dont hard reset as they wanted to see if they could get logs. So i call support again only to be told while my units are still under hardware warranty the included "tech support" is only 90 days and I'd have to buy a tech plan starting at $99. I'm like oh no thnkas you can just RMA, look at the history of the serial number. Tech tells me they cants RMA it unless they "troubleshoot" the issue and they cant do that unless i buy a plan.. I nearly lose it on the phone. guy puts me on hold for like 10 mins only to come back and tell methe RMA is approved. Replacement unit shows up 2 days later, all good right? wrong. I had the 750P model from best buy which is an AX5400, they replaced the router with the 750 model which is said to have a better cpu and mo0re antennas but is only an AX4200 unit. I do use the wireless backhaul to connect my audio system to my network and the things i have in the basement so I was a litter concerned. The first issue I had was getting the Satillies to connect correctly to the 750 as the sats are like the router the 750P model line, They would connect but never stay synced, googling the error pointed to bad signal even though they were in the smae spots. As luck would have it Support called me just to verify it showed up to which i told them they sent the wrong unit, they reopened the case and told me they would send a second replacemeent the 760 which is the new direct replacement of the 750p, i asked them to verify it works correctly with the satillies whcih they did. That showed up this morning, and the satillites just wouldnt connect, took about 2 hours to get them to connect and they still seem glitchy.. My patience with netgear had run out, I just picked up the TP Link Deco BE65 Pro BE11000 kit and will be setting that up in the morning then probably selling the netgear cheap or giving it to a friend or something.
Hi all, forgive me as I'm not super technical when it comes to wifi but I'll do my best to explain what I have and what I need help with. I have an Orbi RBR750. One router, with 2 satellites. I have 1g internet coming in the house almost every thing in the house is on wifi including all the lights, pool equipment, smoker outside... everything. The Orbi has become a nightmare. Every time we lose power even for a minute the network goes out and nothing reconnects, then the start of hitting reset and building the network again. the first few times was easy, typed in the network name and everything reconnected but for some reason that stopped happening. Now nothing connects or I can't even recreate the network. Most recently lost power for 3 hours, took 2 days of resetting and rebuilding the network and it finally worked but one satellite won't connect. After all the troubleshooting I could find as a last resort I unplugged the router for 30 seconds.......30 seconds. Now it won't let me recreate the network. It's frustrating and I'm done. I want to replace this POS so I can recreate the printer scene from Office Space. I have roughly 3k sq ft house. 2.5-3 floors. 1/2 acre and I want wifi everywhere. I previously mounted a satellite in a waterproof housing by the pool and can either recreate that or if there's an option for an outdoor satellite it would be great. One router with an inside satellite and one outside satellite seemed to give me seamless coverage so that should be good but I need something easy to deal with and secure. Looking for under $1k if possible. Any help would be appreciated.
So the orbi is connected to the verizon router which I have a separate network on. That network works fine when the power comes back up so we use it as a back up but it's not as powerful or fast and doesn't have the range my mesh has. I looked into a UPS but it seemed like I was only finding ones that run for like 10 minutes which seemed incorrect but got annoyed and gave up looking. I have a tab opened on the TP-Link Deco 7 Pro right now, not sure if that's similar to yours. Heard about security issues with TP Link although I'm not educated enough about it to understand why.
Maybe commenters posts would be clearer if they included intended audience information but my wireless Netgear Orbi 750 mesh serves me well and my son has no complaints about his Orbi 9xx system.
I suspect posters are confusing good enough, even excellent, with what is the best possible.
Just upgraded to the Deco BE65 Pro from an Orbi RBR750 system, and the Deco iOS app is a huge improvement. Using main wired directly to the Fiber ‘modem’ + 1 wireless downstairs & 1 wired upstairs + 1 wireless upstairs.
Just wanted to get input on this being the most optimized infrastructure. Thanks in advance.
Hey much appreciated. I really just mirrored the older Orbi setup. This WiFi 7 mesh is just much faster and the app is much more intuitive.
The Orbi has served us well, but parental controls were disjointed and not intuitive at all. The device management is much stronger on the Deco app.
Mesh wifi systems with ethernet plugs are pretty great. My server is on the same base station as my internet/PC, but have plenty of other devices plugged into my other base stations that access the server and its no problem. I have a Netgear Orbi RBR750.
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