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Thinking of buying a Netgear Orbi RBK30

vivski — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:44:14 GMT

I have a Smart Hub 2 and following a visit by an engineer was advised to ditch Powerline adapters which can compromise performance and go for a WiFi mesh system instead.

I did consider the BT Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi system. As these disks only have one Ethernet port I have looked around and wonder if the Netgear system would be better as the Orbi router has 3 LAN Gigibit Ethernet ports, and the satellite unit has 2 Ethernet ports.

Also the Netgear system uses WiFi 6, which the BT devices do not. I would not want to use the Netgear router as a router.

Am I likely to run into problems if I use the Netgear system or is it as simple to set up and use as it appears to be?

Re: Thinking of buying a Netgear Orbi RBK30

imjolly — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:47:18 GMT

try using search facility for Netgear Orbi

here is one result from many

https://community.bt.com/t5/Home-setup-Wi-Fi-network/Netgear-Orbi-Mesh-SmartHub/m-p/2245024

Re: Thinking of buying a Netgear Orbi RBK30

vivski — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:18:38 GMT

Thanks, I did try a search and did not find anything which seemed relevant.

The link which you posted relates to someone who has FTTP. I have copper wire connecting to my home so the fibre does not reach my house so I guess that I do not have FTTP or FTTH.

Re: Thinking of buying a Netgear Orbi RBK30

licquorice — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:35:59 GMT

If you are using the Orbi in Access Point mode, just connect it to the SH2 LAN port to LAN port.

Re: Thinking of buying a Netgear Orbi RBK30

vivski — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:24:18 GMT

Thank you, I will try that.