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Orbi 970 Series Quad-Band WiFi 7 Mesh Router (RBE971SB)

NETGEAR Orbi 970 Series Quad-Band WiFi 7 Mesh Router (RBE971SB)

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Sentiment score54% positive
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Last updated: Jun 5, 2026

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Reddit IconCautious_Boat_999
about 2 months ago

I’ve been using a Netgear Orbi RBE771 for a year and have had zero issues. Dedicated wireless backhaul channel works great

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Reddit IconDJZoey
12 months ago

Was mentioned over on the community forums that enabling WPA3 only on the 970 seemed to solve the newer iPhone generation issue of connections. [https://community.netgear.com/discussions/en-home-orbi-be/i-finally-found-a-solution-to-fixing-the-orbi970-iphone-wifi-disconnecting-issue/2458460](https://community.netgear.com/discussions/en-home-orbi-be/i-finally-found-a-solution-to-fixing-the-orbi970-iphone-wifi-disconnecting-issue/2458460) Something you could try and see if this helps what you're seeing.

Reddit IconDrTuSo
9 months ago

When I bought my own house, I ran into the problem, that the main stream fancy brands had nothing in their product portfolio, that would meet my requirements (2.5 GBit fiber connection and I wanted a 2.5 Gbit network in my house). Ended up with Netgear Orbi 970 with 3 Satellites (192 m² house, one satellite is in my garage). Yes, it is expensive as hell, but it outperforms everything I've used by miles. When I build my new computer and hadn't connected the network cable and was running on WLAN only, I still had 2.2 GBit/s download speed, which was insane. Gaming with that setup is a dream.

Reddit Iconmuj68567
12 months ago

I switched from flagship Orbi to mid to high range TP and never looked back. TP just works.

Reddit IconOsamaBinChillin
6 months ago

I have an Orbi 970. Thought it was garbage and bought ubiquiti. Turns out it was my modem that was having issues. Been wanting to sell it for a while now.

Reddit IconPleggster
5 months ago

We run the Orbi 970 in our home and it is fantastic. We are high usage people. We have a large house, and it covers completely along with our outside pool area. My sister has the 770 and it does just as well for her situation, which sounds about, like the OP situation.

Reddit IconXCGod
12 months ago

I have orbi 970s that work fantastic. They pulled multi-gig throughput over wireless backhaul and now I have them wired with 10g backhaul.

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