Netgear Orbi

I just received an email about the exciting new wireless routers from Netgear...

In case you haven't seen it yet

Orbi

I was looking at that the other day. It's a wireless mesh system and new satellites can be added to remove wifi black-spots.

Very much like https://eero.com/ which has been out a while.... still not in the UK though .

Matt

And only £350 from Currys for a base station and 1 satellite box. A bit rich for me.

I must admit the price is rather sharp, they look incredibly large too. Saying that I could do with some sort of extension to my network as my routers are at one end of the house and the living area is at the other much to the annoyance of the kids.

£350 and it's only got USB 2.0!

Pass.

Run a length of Cat5e or Cat6 with an RJ45 socket at each end. Add a re-purposed router or a WAP. Total cost £20 - a little cheaper and does exactly the same.

I think if I needed a better WiFi solution then I would probably look at the Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR UniFi AC1300 or similar.
Luckily my property is small enough that my Archer C5 is man enough to handle all the WiFi traffic

Not everyone is allowed to run cable like this (people renting or that have spouses may have "contractual" requirements that stop them from running cables).

No, it doesn't do exactly same because the Netgear Orbi is a wireless mesh system but multiple WAPs aren't.

It will provide coverage to the part of the house which currently has very little.

That is doing the same job ....