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Last year, I installed an Orbi Wifi 6 system in my parent's three-storey house. And I'm using the older RBK50 version myself with an ethernet backhaul. For cons
by EveYoung 6y ago
Last year, I installed an Orbi Wifi 6 system in my parent's three-storey house. And I'm using the older RBK50 version myself with an ethernet backhaul. For consumer products, both are pretty good and offer fast and stable wifi. I'm not running a complex home network so consumer-grade hardware is good enough for me. That said, I've no idea if Netgear is better than Ubiquiti at a company level. I've noticed that many people here are usually fairly critical of Netgear.
- Waterluvian 6y agoFascinating. I always thought "Wifi mesh systems" are self-defeating, given they use wifi to mesh wifi. You found this worked well?
- EveYoung 6y agoMy knowledge about networking is fairly limited, but from a consumer perspective it works really well with seamless roaming, especially compared to old wifi repeaters. The Orbi system uses a dedicated backhaul to connect the nodes. Since by parents' old house doesn't really allow installing network cables, this seemed like a good solution. In my home, I'm using a wired backhaul, which is the prefered option if possible. My only critisism is that the Orbi Wifi 6 system is quite expensive and there probably exist cheaper options to achieve the same.
- croutonwagon 6y agoThere are some, including the orbi that have antennas set aside for Dedicated back haul. It will dramatically help performance compared to mesh that have to pause tx to talk on the back haul.