Netgear Orbi Mesh WiFi
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Originally posted by paulockenden View PostOrbi wins (if you pick the '50' units rather than the cheaper 40 or 30)
Also, do you know what the marketers have in mind when they talk about square footage? I assume the "3000 sqft" kit would cover 3000 sqft on the ground, so a 6000 sqft house (assuming "typical" two stories, and usual radio coverage caveats applied)?
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Originally posted by paulockenden View PostNot really mesh then...
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There is something distinctly different about the way the mesh systems appear to work as opposed to have multiple access points on the network. I was running 3 APs before on the same SSID same passphrase but different channels but my phones refused to roam them. Now with the Velop units they happily roam, I have no idea why.
In terms of coverage the way I read the Orbi marketing is to space the units in such a way it gives you effective coverage of the claimed sq footage. What I did with my Velop is to place each node at the opposite far ends of the house on every floor .e.g. loft rear, first floor front, ground floor rear. That seems to cover every part of the house and clearly at points in the house is picking up the signal from other floors as it's a stronger signal as a straight line distance through ceilings and floors.
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I will throw my tuppence worth into the pot. I am running a Fritz!box and a 1750E repeater with new beta mesh firmware in a 5 bed house and getting 50Mbps down speeds throughout the house. It plays nicely with the Sonos Mesh apart from the once in a Blue Moon 2.4 band channel change. I am not brave enough to try the Sky Mesh so I run the two Sky boxes from a LAN wired connection with the 1750 and an old WiFi repeater that isn’t mesh capable.
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Originally posted by dty View PostWhat's the difference?
The European product director explained to me that the square footage thing was just an attempt to try to come up with something that non-techie people (the target audience) would understand.
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Backhaul uses the high number 5ghz channels. The original 50 model uses four channels as four separate streams. The lesser models use fewer channels, eg the 40 only uses two.
As well as throuput this also affects range. At extremes, with four channels there’s more chance of contact being made. The Velop (when using wireless backhaul) just uses a single stream across two adjacent channels.
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Linksys told Amazon to refund my complete payment for the Velop because I reported a major issue with Linksys' firmware for ethernet backhaul which was released literally on the day I was performing my install. I was the first person to write to Linksys and report it giving them all the details. It was a big enough problem that Linksys not only paused the roll out but then actively downgraded all the previously upgraded units too. Sounds like Netgear are having their share of that fun then....I have a free Velop which works perfectly now, so I ain't complaining.
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