NETGEAR Orbi User Reviews

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Nether orbi app

App is easy to navigate & use. The only annoying thing is the subscription, if you don’t subscribe to it.

Service is spotty

It never connects to satelite, it breaks the signal constantly.

High Speed in

I have fiber optic incoming and lose a lot of speed using wireless

Orbi370

This unit is a beast. We have the dual ones. And it covers the whole house which also covers the 2 bedroom cabin in the backyard. I have been using Netgear since I was a kid and it’s never disappointed. Ever

Questionable support and security.

I have tried to check for updates for over a year and it always fails and says try again later. I have no idea if my firmware is up to date or secure. I like the system but the support seems poor at best.

Disconnecting

Very slow

Hidden Bandwidth hogs

My Orbi devices do not provide any top talker information which is cause streaming issues.

Orbi970

Setup was extremely easy and straightforward. Coverage is amazing.

Good home system! Software needs some work

Had this system including 2 x satellites for 1.5 yrs. Overall very good. I like the 10Gbps possibility, and the 2.5Gbps ports for wired connections. Pretty stable & reliable with good signal strength for the $$$, but wish it was quicker/easier for the router to turn off WiFi to certain devices. Sometimes certain devices mysteriously drop connection & I frequently have to go back into the Parental Controls & set devices back to their assigned profile…system seems to do “phantom refreshes” where ALL devices get assigned ti the default profile. Minor annoyance, but worth mentioning here.
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Guillermo

Great Product best WiFi

Wow

Incredible. I have a three story, two basement, over 100 year old home made of concrete, metal lathe, plaster, and most impossible to transmit WiFi signal through substances. I first bought the Eero top of the line system. It did not work at all even with a modem and three satellites. I thought I would have poor internet signal as long as I lived here. I then bought the or I too of the line system. WOW!!! I bought the three pack. With one installed my wife had been online three floors up working with full signal. When I installed the second the entire house was covered with max signal!!!! I then installed the third, which I’m sure I don’t need. FAST!!!!

Get this if you want the fastest signal that can transmit WiFi signal through anything…..

Phenomenal. As an aside, I never am this pleased. This is a home run product…….
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Functional, slow and an Old GUI

The app functions and eventually gives you the information you need/want. But it’s so slow, mainly due to bad architecture! Most main functions are “Blocking”. I guess when they initially wrote and released it, multi threaded wasn’t supported in the OS? 😁 (just teasing)
The user interface is old and enforces the bad design. You ask for Network Map, and until that specific function finishes, the whole app blocks (temporarily freezes) and you can’t do anything else. Frustrating 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Dumb Luck

Things were not going to smooth on the setup,. It felt like dumb lucky fell into play and got log-in process

Can’t Log In

Can no longer log into the app after the last update. Forces the username to be admin, doesn’t recognize Face ID, no way to change the credentials. Useless.

Set up

Not easy at all!

Orbi 8700

My old set of Orbi ‘s work better on the outside of my house than this new three pack of 8700 Orbis

Reset hungry

Be prepared to rest this device many, many times. My older mesh system worked better. I even bought a new updated modem and I’m still not satisfied. Not much I can do now after $1000 into it.

Instable

Keep unrecognizing the Ring

Pretty good for a beginner but needs improvements for an advanced user

It’d be great if you could have dedicated devices on a dedicated satellite and move them around as needed or wanted. Also, with priority over other devices on the network. Speedtest, it would be nice to know where I’m connecting to and be able to change to different servers whether it’s locally or across the world to another country or within the US. It would be good to be able to do a lot of the admin functions within the app instead of logging in through a browser.
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Unstable after power outage

My Orbi network never comes back properly after a power outage and takes 2+ frustrating days of restarts & tweaks before it’s stable again. Super annoying: never seems to need the same restart process, always guesswork.