brjoon1021
Occasional Visitor
Hello good folks of this forum,
I have been going through hell with the *orbi, but sent it back today. Back to the Nighthawk 6700 for the time being. (It can be part of your recommendation, of course)
I need some buying advice for a mesh network or similar to cover my 2600 sf house that is long and shaped like: " [ " - at each end of the house a bedroom that stands in front of the longer main house. It is an older house with really thick walls and many of them so it presents some challenges to a single point router such as hitting thick walls at sharp angles to reach the 2 bedrooms at the corners of the house . I thought an *Orbi would be great – nope. The bedrooms that ‘stick out” need coverage and a router placed in the middle of the main house, can’t get there. What have you guys USED and loved. The house is not wired for ethernet. Not something I am willing to spend the money on either. Wireless is my goal.
*I unfortunately bought the Netgear Orbi RBK50 at the advice of this site and several other reviewers and found there is a BIG difference between testing a device for hours or days then writing a review of it compared to living with it daily. In short, the Orbi is a steaming pile that I sent back after 3 months of suffering and hours with their tech support making changes, firmware upgrades, advanced options, taking my frustration out on my ISP, etc…
I am back to square one. Considering putting the google setup in the attic with Ethernet backhaul (no walls up there). I could really use your help !
I have been going through hell with the *orbi, but sent it back today. Back to the Nighthawk 6700 for the time being. (It can be part of your recommendation, of course)
I need some buying advice for a mesh network or similar to cover my 2600 sf house that is long and shaped like: " [ " - at each end of the house a bedroom that stands in front of the longer main house. It is an older house with really thick walls and many of them so it presents some challenges to a single point router such as hitting thick walls at sharp angles to reach the 2 bedrooms at the corners of the house . I thought an *Orbi would be great – nope. The bedrooms that ‘stick out” need coverage and a router placed in the middle of the main house, can’t get there. What have you guys USED and loved. The house is not wired for ethernet. Not something I am willing to spend the money on either. Wireless is my goal.
*I unfortunately bought the Netgear Orbi RBK50 at the advice of this site and several other reviewers and found there is a BIG difference between testing a device for hours or days then writing a review of it compared to living with it daily. In short, the Orbi is a steaming pile that I sent back after 3 months of suffering and hours with their tech support making changes, firmware upgrades, advanced options, taking my frustration out on my ISP, etc…
I am back to square one. Considering putting the google setup in the attic with Ethernet backhaul (no walls up there). I could really use your help !
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) at home and they let me know pretty quick when they are having issues. I enjoy tweaking and I am a network-security engineer and don't mind troubleshooting... sort of enjoy it for the most part. I have over 30 devices on the system and at times devices sitting next to each other had different performance behavior. The only way I could fix it was to toggle WiFi on/off on the device to get it working and at times only a device reboot...or router reboot would fix it. My customers constantly were not happy. 
