I then bought Linksys Velop MX10. It was good, but it was expensive. It seemed to perform well (flawless connectivity), but not quite as strong in performance as my initial Orbi RBK753 – namely, with Orbi speeds remain close to full (per the ISP), in between nodes (Satellites), and throughout more of the house, but Velop seemed to diminish by about ~30%. Note: Each unit does have a sync button which is only necessary when you use it with a hardware unit of another Orbi set or a standalone Orbi satellite.) In my tests, that proved to be true, with the RBK752 managing decent throughputs of 442.92Mbps at close range, 319.54Mbps on the first floor, and 284.78Mbps on the first floor. That’s just a little way behind the RBK852, although the bigger system still has plenty of streams left for other clients, whereas I was maxing out the bandwidth of the RBK752. Indeed, the RBR750 router had sustained speeds ranging from 710Mbps to 875Mbps a 1.2Gbps-connected 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 client up to 40 feet (12 m) away. The Orbi RBR750 mesh router's Wi-Fi performance So, while the speed is good and the design is nice, and the setup is simple, the cost is high, and the reliability is ZERO !

Here are the results I saw, along with the speeds achieved by some other mesh systems in the same tests: For example, it is not always an advantage to send at full power, if the nodes are too close to each other and create interference. But relax, it usually works just fine if you never touch these settings. Measured from the adjacent room to the node, the Orbi AX4200 gave a wireless speed of around 600 Mbit/s. Orbi in use Netgear Orbi AX4200's hardware looks quite sleek from the top. Pre-sync hardware, the familiar setup processThe router has a single 2.5 gigabit per second (Gbps) WAN input port for use with the newest modems. Both the router and satellite have four 1 Gbps LAN ports for connecting things like a printer and NAS storage, but no USB port. Both have a recessed reset button. Netgear Orbi WiFi 6 (RBK852) review: Performance The Orbi RBK852 uses Qualcomm’s newest Networking Pro 1200 Wi-Fi chip with 1GB of RAM and 512MB of capacity for storing firmware and settings. It’s all powered by a quad-core processor that runs at a maximum of 2GHz. It has an AX6000 rating. The minor downside of having mobile data built-in is that the router has fewer Gigabit Ethernet ports than the regular RBK752 system. Here, you get two Gigabit Ethernet ports for devices, and a Gigabit Ethernet WAN port. The latter can be used for connecting to standard broadband or, if you’re going 5G only, you can use it as an additional LAN port. However, the router didn't do well with Wi-Fi 5 clients due to the lower Wi-Fi specs. I used a 4x4 one at the close range (10 feet) test, and it had a sustained speed of some 660Mbps. At 40 feet away, my 3x3 client averaged some 600Mbps. Still, these are impressive numbers. That’s a little behind the pace of the RBK852 system, which does better at range, and the RBKE963, which is faster still. However, these results are still very good, and the most important thing is that this Orbi system is super-reliable; it delivered a strong signal all around my home.

Testing with a 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 card in a Windows computer, the Orbi RBK752 should technically give similar performance to the RBK852, maximising the full bandwidth available on the 5GHz channel.

Open up the Netgear Orbi 5G Tri-Band WiFi 6 Mesh System (NBK752) and you’ll see that it’s pretty much business as usual – this kit look similar to previous Wi-Fi 6 Orbi systems. You lose some features from the top-end system, but the lower price and decent performance makes this a more reasonable system for many. Design and build quality – Gives you most of what you need but there are fewer Ethernet ports However, note that while the RBR750 can work with any broadband service, the CBR750, which doesn't have a WAN port, is suitable only for cable Internet users. So, it's more rigid. The base station included the router, so we tried to connect this directly to the NBN with iiNet, and it worked, sort of. Every day the internet connection would be dropping - the wifi seemed to be working fine, but the router connection to the internet continued to drop out. For many years I have had a very fast wireless home network, at the expense of convenience. With a lightning-fast router set up as an access point on each floor, I have gotten stable speeds, but with the disadvantage that I had to manually switch from one network to the other when moving from one floor to the next. Also, consider the fact that a well-functioning smart home is out of the question, with several smart products spread across different wireless networks. Netgear Orbi AX4200 has a large router and ditto node, but they have nice curves that are not annoying. Photo: Netgear You need mesh

There are three Gigabit Ethernet ports for connecting wired devices, which is one less than on the Netgear Orbi RBK852. Still, this will probably do for most people and you can always add a Gigabit Ethernet switch if you need more devices. You get slightly fewer ports on this system than with its bigger brother. On the router, you get a single Gigabit Ethernet WAN port, rather than the 2.5Gb port on the bigger system. This router can still cope with the fastest internet connections available in the UK today, and you can use port aggregation with the first Gigabit Ethernet port to support internet speeds of up to 2Gbps. With 50-feet separating the test machine from the router, the RBR750’s bandwidth dropped to 100.3Mbps. This is more than enough for most uses but was well behind the Eero Pro 6 (239.9Mbps), the Linksys Velop AX4200 (201.3Mbps) and the Netgear Orbi RBK852 (124.4Mbps). It had trouble competing with other Wi-Fi 6 mesh routers when it came to sending a signal through 25 feet and a wall with 326.6Mbps available on the other side. Under the same conditions, the Netgear Orbi RBR852 moved 782.9Mbps, while the Linksys Velop AX4200 was able to deliver 525.7Mbp and the Eero Pro 6 coming in at 375.6Mbps. It is clear as "If you do need help, the support that Netgear provides is excellent. “, is an outright lie. Their support is a call center oversees that simply knows a set number of SIMPLE troubleshooting and that is it.As mentioned above, "C" in this case is for cable. So, the only difference between the two is that the latter's router unit, the CBR750, is a cable gateway -- it is a router + modem combo. The RBK752 comes with a short Netgear Armor online protection trial, available to many other Netgear routers. To use it, though, you'll need to resort to the mobile app. Similarly, you can also opt for Netgear Circle by Disney Parental Control feature, another entire app. Today I had about 4 dropouts within the space of an hour (none before and none since) but it's simply not acceptable.

Since my three-bedroom home is somewhat on the cusp of Netgear’s coverage recommendations, I tested the Orbi RBK763 in both two-node and three-node configurations. In both cases, the primary node was installed in my study, connected directly to the internet line and also (via Gigabit Ethernet) to an Asustor Drivestor 4 Pro NAS appliance. In reality, though, that made a little difference, as you will see in the performance section below.) Long-time user of Apple AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule, but having moved to a larger home a couple of years ago, I’ve been on a search for a more suitable replacement – preferably a mesh network.First time poster, here. I’ve been waiting a while for your review of this unit. Here’s my journey: Looking deeper, it's a different story. There's a lot more to love in this new and well-balanced mesh Wi-Fi system. The fact it's significantly more affordable alone means many can experience it. Most importantly, chances are it delivers the same experience you'd get from the RBK852 anyway. My original plan was to return them after i got something better. I have 9000 sq ft home. These worked so good out of the box, i just got another set to complete the coverage! I set up the second router as a wired access point in one corner of the house with the main router connected to four satellites. The fourth satellite is quite a distance away from the main router, but it is doing a great job of daisychaining from a satellite in between. The first impression of the Orbi network was a different league than with Nighthawk. It worked smoothly from the start, and has done since. I have now used it for over four months, and even though I have three floors, there are no problems with the coverage in the house with two boxes. The Internet is of course at its fastest in the immediate vicinity of the node or router (they are equal in terms of speed and coverage), but the speed never drops below 200 Mbps, so in practice it is twice as fast as the cheaper Nighthawk system – and also much more stable. I have not had to reboot the system once. Spin it around and you’ll see the difference around the rear: there’s a SIM card slot, so you can connect to the network of your choice. This makes Netgear’s system more flexible than with the Vodafone Broadband Pro system, which connects to the Vodafone network only.