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NETGEAR Extends WiFi6 with 2nd Orbi Mesh System Delivering Gigabit WiFi Everywhere in the Home
Joining the flagship Orbi WiFi 6 AX6000 Tri-band Mesh System (RBK852), this new Orbi Mesh System, with its attractive price point, is designed to make robust whole home WiFi 6 mesh accessible to more households around the globe.
While accelerating the transition to the latest in WiFi technology, the new Orbi Tri-band Mesh WiFi system is available now as a two pack, router and satellite system (RBK752), and a three pack, router with two satellites (RBK753), from NETGEAR.com and other retailers.
Following on the tremendous success of the award-winning Orbi WiFi 6 AX6000 mesh system (RBK852) and the numerous WiFi 6 clients now available from phone and laptop manufacturers, the Orbi AX4200 WiFi 6 Mesh Systems join NETGEAR's industry-leading portfolio of WiFi 6 network product offerings. The two new WiFi 6 mesh systems make the ideal upgrade for the customer who wishes to get the benefits of both the WiFi performance and coverage of a tri-band mesh and the capacity to handle multiple devices with WiFi 6 for their home but at a more attractive price point. Tri-band mesh WiFi provides a network of wireless router and satellites with a dedicated data connection from router to satellite to ensure the best performance and reach through the entire home.
With the latest generation WiFi 6 technology, these powerful mesh WiFi systems are designed to keep all connections strong, in every room, all the time. The upgraded WiFi will provide households with the bandwidth to address the demands of today's automated smart home even when running multiple 4K/8K UHD streaming and online gaming. In an environment where streaming of ultra-high definition video to multiple screens puts greater demands on home
networks, the new Orbi WiFi 6 mesh systems (RBK752/753) provide the same great coverage as the flagship Orbi WiFi 6 mesh (RBK852/853), but are designed for families with slightly fewer devices, enabling the capability to support upwards of 40 devices on a network simultaneously without interruption, whereas the RBK 852/853 is designed for larger families or gadget hounds and can support over 60 devices on the network at one time. From online exercise classes, to online gaming, to live video meetings, to streaming of on-demand online video, all these activities may now take place simultaneously without interruption with an Orbi WiFi 6 Mesh network.
Orbi WiFi 6 Mesh Systems are also designed to deliver on the gigabit internet speeds promised by service providers, with the RBK752/753 supporting internet speeds of up to 1 Gigabit and RBK852/853 supporting up to 2.5 Gigabit speeds for those lucky enough to have it. The 3 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports on the router and 2 on the satellite allow for the connection of more wired devices, which makes it ideal for home offices or home entertainment systems.
And both WiFi 6 Mesh systems leverage the dedicated WiFi 6 backhaul that NETGEAR pioneered with the original Orbi, which provides a dedicated quad stream 5Ghz channel for data exchange between the router and satellite thus reducing congestion and allowing all devices on the network to run faster.
In the current environment where home networks are now constrained by every member of the household working from home, distance learning and streaming video or playing online games, this new Orbi WiFi 6 Mesh system is designed to carry the heavy load of this new reality," said David Henry, senior vice president of Connected Home Products for NETGEAR. "Providing a range of options for consumers and small businesses, NETGEAR boasts the largest portfolio of WiFi 6 routers, range extenders, mesh WiFi systems, and cable gateways in the industry. It is our aim to provide a broad range of advanced WiFi solutions to address the needs of the ever-evolving consumer landscape."
Simple setup and WiFi management are all made possible by way of the Orbi app. Create a guest network, view the connected devices, and perform speed tests right from the free app for iOS and Android. To safeguard the home network in this time of heightened online activity, NETGEAR Armor powered by Bitdefender on Orbi Mesh WiFi Systems is the ideal solution with an award-winning cybersecurity designed to protect all internet-connected devices within a home from viruses, malware, stolen passwords, identity theft and hacking, whether at home or on the go. NETGEAR Armor is complimentary for a 30-day trial period. After the trial period, a yearly subscription is required in order to continue to protect all your connected devices.
Availability:
The NETGEAR Orbi AX4200 Tri-band WiFi 6 Mesh Systems (RBK752 and RBK753) are now available worldwide.
- Orbi AX4200 (RBK752) Tri-band WiFi 6 Mesh System for an MSRP of $449.99 USD.
- Orbi AX4200 (RBK753) Tri-band WiFi 6 Mesh System for an MSRP of $599.99 USD
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#5804992 Posted on: 07/01/2020 07:09 PM
The reason to use both bands has little to do with bandwidth, it has to do with collision domains.
Despite all of the advances made in the last decade with MU-MIMO, beamforming, mesh networks and the like, each wireless network still uses the exact same TCP/IP stack that it did when WiFi launched. That means that your entire wireless network remains a single half-duplex collision domain, able to process only a single packet at a time. When multiple devices are sending data at the same time, the packets are handled on a first come, first served basis, and the rest are dropped and need to be re-sent by the devices. Hence, the more devices you have, the more latency every device on the network has due to dropped packets needing to be re-sent.
Your average smart home device is chatty as hell, sending keep-alive packets pretty much constantly in order to be able to respond instantly when called. I've seen people with 20+ WiFi smart bulbs in their homes complaining that their router sucks and they can't stream video smoothly even standing right next to it, and people who add Google WiFi with no dedicated backhaul and suddenly their network is even worse. Understanding this one basic tenet of how wireless networks work is probably more important than any other. It only comes into play when you have a lot of devices and a mid-range router with a slower processor, but that description is rapidly becoming the norm.
So why should you turn on the 5Ghz band when the 2.4 is plenty fast? To keep the shit you actually want to use away from your chatty appliances who make it difficult for you to keep a steady UDP stream going.
The reason to use both bands has little to do with bandwidth, it has to do with collision domains.
Despite all of the advances made in the last decade with MU-MIMO, beamforming, mesh networks and the like, each wireless network still uses the exact same TCP/IP stack that it did when WiFi launched. That means that your entire wireless network remains a single half-duplex collision domain, able to process only a single packet at a time. When multiple devices are sending data at the same time, the packets are handled on a first come, first served basis, and the rest are dropped and need to be re-sent by the devices. Hence, the more devices you have, the more latency every device on the network has due to dropped packets needing to be re-sent.
Your average smart home device is chatty as hell, sending keep-alive packets pretty much constantly in order to be able to respond instantly when called. I've seen people with 20+ WiFi smart bulbs in their homes complaining that their router sucks and they can't stream video smoothly even standing right next to it, and people who add Google WiFi with no dedicated backhaul and suddenly their network is even worse. Understanding this one basic tenet of how wireless networks work is probably more important than any other. It only comes into play when you have a lot of devices and a mid-range router with a slower processor, but that description is rapidly becoming the norm.
So why should you turn on the 5Ghz band when the 2.4 is plenty fast? To keep the shit you actually want to use away from your chatty appliances who make it difficult for you to keep a steady UDP stream going.
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Some time ago I disabled 5GHz wifi (1300Mbps). I simply did not need it.
All my smart home appliances run on 2,4GHz. Gaming PCs are on cable for minimum latency.
And cellphones/laptops are in no need or able to saturate 600Mbps I have available on 2,4GHz in between themselves and NAS like devices.
As far as connection to outside goes, its 150/15Mbps will be saturated long before wireless.
Not saying that some people are not able to use such bandwidth internally. But for most homes, even if all devices did strain network in worst way available in given home at same time, Wireless would not be limiting factor.
And If I had like servers which would talk this amount of data between each other, I would not use shared medium like air. Cable is cheap and reliable. And Air would remain free for heavy utilization.