NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System (RBK653) – Router with 2 Satellite Extenders, Coverage Up to 6,000 Square Feet, 40 Devices, AX3000 (Up to 3Gbps)

The design on this is great it will work small places , the speed and signal strength is a lot better, notifications of connectivity so that makes the security amazing because you can deny access from your phone and most importantly the set up was easy.

Worked well and the install was not bad.

Foremost, go with TP-Link Deko, and do not by Orbi. TP Link has MUCH better app for set up, much easier to manage, and no issues.Orbi was a nightmare from powering it on. Seemed great, love to have the option of a app interface. Power up, follow instructions to a "T", and won't get past the "rename WiFi" step. Hard reset to move forward. Same. Hard Reset. Same. On the 4th time, I finally had enough, and took a swig of my Four Roses to give me the courage to call Tech Support. 1.75 hours later, I had WiFi, but couldn't use my old network name. You know how miserable it is to reconnect 103 devices throughout a 4200 sq ft home?If only that was the end of the issues. Dropped signals. Satellites not connecting. Orbi not issuing devices an IP address. I work from home (in the IT field). This system was IMPOSSIBLE to live with. After 2 months, I trashed it and bought a TP Link system. I recommend you do the same.

Lived in a concrete apartment 3 bed rooms. I needed all 3 routers to cover this 1200 sqft home and it still had deadzones. Obviously that's concrete.My real issue is with Mesh Wifi period, not just Netgear. Device Steering is always automatic and it never works. You will always have trouble with devices connecting to the further router & choosing 5Ghz when the device is far away. Stuff like this could be easily solved for us technical people by allowing us to steer devices because we tend to have a couple devices specifically our own that we would like to keep on a set router & a set ghz. I used to own the LinkSys Velops for a couple of year, the connection range is better but the app is more simplified than theirs.Check for other mesh systems that maybe offer better device steering because it's non existent on the orbi's. Atleast Linksys tries.

So, I followed the setup instructions but the router didn't connect to my modem initially. With a little tweaking over 10 minutes, I was able to get in connected. The satellites synced without a hitch.

I replaced an older set of Orbi's (slower) with this new set. They are must faster and give me the full band width of my provider through out my home. Setup was easy as I had a learning curve from my original set. I did experience one problem: I have a long house. My internet connection comes into one end of the house. I set the main router there and put two satellite units inline down the centerline of the house. The second satellite unit (furthest away from the main unit) does not connect to the intermediate placed unit. Rather it connects to the main router--sometimes with 'good' reception and other times with 'poor' reception. After a couple of hours with Orbi tech help, I found out that the satellite units always tries to connect to the main router, even if another satellite is providing a stronger signal--supposedly 'this provides a faster connection.' Do not understand why this is the case since I do get a 'poor' connection to the main router at times on the second satellite unit. Looks like I wasted my money on getting a second satellite unit. Even with this problem, I am getting full bandwidth throughout the house.

Be careful with the like new items. Mine was already registered by a previous customer and that voided the warranty. Would be nice of Amazon to inform the customer of this and Netgear would not honor my receipt as proof of purchase. It's already hooked up with some help from Netgear technical support because it was previously registered and it works great. To lazy to hook up a new one, so I kept it.

Worth the money! I have a very long apartment and after buying so many WiFi extenders that just didn’t do the trick, this one finally did and it was so easy to set up on my own. The speed is fast in all areas of my home, full strength of connectivity and I’m enjoying the extra security features.