Orbi 770 Series

This is my response from a different thread but this applies: A sample size of one but I wanted to give you my perspective. I used to have RBR50 with 1 satellite with wireless back haul. I get 1.2GBPS at from my ISP. I used to get really good speeds (5-600) everywhere, but about 2 months ago it started getting worse and eventually died. I’ve had these for 5-6 years so I got my money worth. I bought Deco BE11000 and had it for a week. I hated it, it was unstable and the internet speeds were all over the place. Compared to my Orbi, I got higher speeds (800 deco vs 500/600 Orbi) when I was close to the router, but worse speeds (80/90 deco vs 200 Orbi) when I was far away from the router. Some of my smart devices didn’t even connect at all. My work computer kept on dropping connection constantly even at 15 feet! Then tried the 770. The firmware was a mess. Constant dropping connections with several drops. My TV which is about 20ft away kept on losing WiFi and it drove me crazy. Specially at the price of 770. I finally went back to RBK752P and it’s been a dream. I get 800+ pretty much everywhere in the house and connection has been rock solid. Take that for what at worth!

Tp link deco or Orbi 770, wired back haul - I have the same situation and got the 770, now I get a full 1.5gbps on all floors every room - put one mesh point on each floor (wired).

You probably want a mesh router. This means that there are two or three routers in a pack that all connect to one another automatically to keep your signal boosted. Go with TP Link Deco or Netgear Orbi 770.

Nice. I thought about the 970 but I’m the only real high usage person in my household, so I went with the 770. It covers an entire 2 acres of my property and I can get a 100mbps signal 1/4 mile down the street (probably a fringe case because I live at the highest point in the neighborhood lol) People like to crap on the 770 but it’s a real nice mid tier solution.

You are required to keep your ATT gateway. There is a technical way to bypass this involving by cloning your ATT modem onto a piece of hardware that "tricks" ATT into thinking you are using their modem. The 2 much easier solutions are either 1) put your ATT gateway into ip passthrough mode, or 2) setup your mesh network as Access Points instead of routers (AP mode) I have the same ATT gateway on 300mbps as you. I went with 2 Orbi XE75 mesh units which give me great speed throughout my house and yard. I did realize that I probably could've moved my modem to the center of the house with an $11 ethernet cable and gotten OK results instead. But I do like having the full 300mbps that I pay for all the way in the detached garage.

Avoid Netgear at all costs. They appear to be incapable of getting the firmware right for their WiFi 7 units.  I got an Orbi 770 and gave up. I went back to Eero with the Pro 7. Back to stable WiFi. 

Apple compatibility should be nothing to be concerned with. All this WiFi crap has to meet standards or nothing would talk. Your biggest issue with mesh is getting good WiFi paths back to the router. With mesh, you have two WiFi problems -- Client to mesh node and mesh node to router. Most people will recommend that you eliminate the mesh part and wire the connection from node to router for best coverage if you're able to. It's also generally cheaper to do this since you can get a simple AP setup. If you can't eliminate mesh then you should get something that's WiFi 7 and uses both the 5Ghz and 6Ghz bands (the Orbi 770 is tri-band so it does).

I switched to Eero 7 stuff, running 2x Eero Max 7 and 2x Eero Outdoor 7 in AP only mode w/ UniFi UCG-Fiber for my router/gw. No regrets. SO MUCH more stable than the Orbi 770 with its hourly lag/packet loss issues. The roaming is second to none. I've tested it thoroughly and I'm impressed. I know it seems basic, but it's stable and seamless. Performance is roughly on par with the Wi-Fi devices I have at least. I pull 1.3-1.5 Gbps on 6 GHz Wi-Fi 6E, 2.2-2.3 Gbps on 5/6 GHz Wi-Fi 7 MLO, and somewhere between 900 and 1200 Mbps on 5 GHz Wi-Fi 6/6E (honestly not sure what that mode even is linking as standard wise, but that's on my outdoor APs). The wireless backhaul performance is not as strong but it's way more stable. I've got wired backhaul for my important segment anyway.

They have flaws beyond that though. I get an hourly lag/packet loss spike that lasts 20-30 seconds on my 770 satellite even after segmenting or removing all other devices from my network other than my gaming box. No firmware, beta or not, has addressed it. This occurs on the 970 system as well for a lot of people. Netgear engineering engaged me for a minute with a few sporadic replies, but then ghosted me. I switched to Eero stuff. Good riddance, not to be flippant. But I wasted a lot of my life and spare time trying to diagnose that issue.

I've used Netgear Orbi, Eero, and Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi 7 systems all long term. If you want an excellent ecosystem all behind one very sleek pane of glass WITH better performance and reliability and control than the other stuff, just get UniFi. The only caveat is lack of a dedicated wireless backhaul channel but this is often inconsequential because of better range and overall bandwidth. If you want to set it and forget it and have tolerance when a forced botched firmware update is pushed with no rollback option, consider Eero.

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.