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NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Mesh WiFi System - WiFi router and 2 satellite extenders with speeds up to 2.2 Gbps over 6,000 sq. feet, AC2200 (RBK23)

Orbi RBK23 by NETGEAR is a Whole Home WiFi System that delivers AC2200 WiFi up to 6,000 square feet. FastLane3 provides better 4K HD gaming & streaming, no matter how many devices connect. Circle with Disney Smart Parental Controls let you easily man...

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Home

(7 reviews)
Way

(7 reviews)
Work

(5 reviews)
Coverage

(23 reviews)
Speed

(22 reviews)
Feature

(14 reviews)
Product

(21 reviews)
Orbi

(9 reviews)
Wifi

(20 reviews)
Setup

(19 reviews)
Signal

(34 reviews)
App

(18 reviews)
Advertise

(7 reviews)
System

(31 reviews)
Spot

(16 reviews)
Zone

(4 reviews)
Customer service

(6 reviews)

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Reviews around home (5.00 of 5)

  • I must say once completed the signal strength through out the home is better than ever!
  • I advise this Orbi system to everyone looking for an easy yet powerful full-home solution for all wi-fi needs
  • Moreover, I have a smart home hub which requires an Ethernet LAN connection, and needs to be close to an appliance in the basement
  • all my google home and smart switches etc work really well
  • We have approximately 20 devices connecteced between smart home devices, iPads, phones, fire sticks, Tvs, etc and this works great
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Reviews around way (5.00 of 5)

  • I am not a full fledged "techie" but can work my way out of a computer set up
  • It's a nice fast way to see if there are internet problems
  • This way, I have perfect signal all over the house, as well as in the garage and driveway
  • I think that experienced users will conclude that the easiest and most reliable way to set up and configure the Orbi system is using an ordinary web browser on your local network.
  • They did say it should work, but netgear would help in suggesting the best way to deploy it
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Reviews around work (5.00 of 5)

  • My summary is that I found the Orbi works well, does what it claims and is great if your installation does not require a bunch more ports
  • The Orbi (3 pack) works great for my house getting wifi all over the house and front/back yards.
  • At any rate, it did eventually start working on its own, and after that worked fine for about three days.

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Reviews around coverage (4.73 of 5)

  • I was happy to see that the coverage was just as good, and that the throughput was about 1-2% better in the strongest signal areas
  • I have been having issues with weak coverage in parts of my house, which isn't
  • Whole house has great coverage, even the back yard patio area and garage.
  • The result is great coverage in all areas of the house, and with effectively 4 access points, no weak signal areas
  • This unit provided great coverage throughout my house and attached garage for 41 days
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Reviews around speed (4.48 of 5)

  • The speed is fast all over my house, with no dropouts or weak spots
  • While not necessary for basic function, I opted to set Static IP’s for our “core” devices (things that reside on the network 100% of the time)
  • It was easy to set up and greatly improved the internet speed in our house
  • Speed was great, WiFi signal was strong everywhere in the house, shop and hangar, out to the edges of my property and beyond.
  • The wireless speed was slower than my old Linksys router
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Reviews around feature (4.18 of 5)

  • Most modern features are there (QoS, restrictions agasint IPs, bandwidth usage)
  • I know you like reoccurring revenue streams but to pay $5 per month to have this feature is crazy
  • If you do pay for Circle, its features are, admittedly, fairly powerful.
  • the Orbi app is user friendly, easy to use and does have some cool features such a performance and traffic metrics, I missed having access the full suite of technical settings
  • Very disappointing that this "feature" is so buggy and brings the entire system to its knees
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Reviews around product (4.16 of 5)

  • Great — Netgear abdicates their promise to support the product and instead turns it over to their user community.
  • I certainly recommend this product for its functionality.
  • This product doesn't work
  • phone.4) Refer to #3 conflicting with #1.After much deliberation, I ultimately went with the smaller set Orbi after reading numerous reviews stating how awesome the product is for speed and coverage.
  • Great product but not the easiest to use when rebooting the router.
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Reviews around orbi (3.75 of 5)

  • My summary is that I found the Orbi works well, does what it claims and is great if your installation does not require a bunch more ports
  • The Orbi (3 pack) works great for my house getting wifi all over the house and front/back yards.
  • Reserve more than a few minutes to set it up, using the excellent Orbi app on your phone, and it will enable fast WiFi through your home or small office.
  • Orbi is hard to bring back online for some odd reason.
  • If you’re not very tech-savvy ,and you still want something which is easy to set up and operate, I’d recommend the Orbi
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Reviews around wifi (3.61 of 5)

  • After installing ORBI we have super strong WiFi in every corner of the house, and even out in the yard
  • The house is now blanketed in uniform and strong signal WiFi.
  • Reserve more than a few minutes to set it up, using the excellent Orbi app on your phone, and it will enable fast WiFi through your home or small office.
  • Painless experience and stronger wifi than we have ever had!
  • Overall, it is a great system that will provide fast WiFi over a large space.
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Reviews around setup (3.58 of 5)

  • Easy setup with an app to setup and monitor your network
  • While not necessary for basic function, I opted to set Static IP’s for our “core” devices (things that reside on the network 100% of the time)
  • Easy, nearly idiot proof setup, beautiful design, and range of coverage is great!
  • There's a lot I really like about the Orbi sytem: Easy setup, good app, great coverage and speeds
  • Ethernet back haul appears to be non functional (full speed gigabit, always insisted on connecting over wireless)"smart setup" locks in Ethernet address even after switching it to dhcp when switching to AP mode from default router mode (10.0.0.1)Maybe if Netgear spent as much time troubleshooting their apps and firmware as they did on box design they would be a company I could trust even after hosing me on a nighthawk x8 that overheated itself into non-functionality
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Reviews around signal (3.56 of 5)

  • This way, I have perfect signal all over the house, as well as in the garage and driveway
  • This way, I have perfect signal all over the house, as well as in the garage and driveway
  • But after completely setting up, I keep loosing signal to the satellites
  • We get a strong wifi signal everywhere, including the backyard.
  • I get intermittent messages from Ring saying the signal is weak.
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Reviews around app (3.51 of 5)

  • It give the extended range I needed to reach an outside garage and the app makes things very easy
  • The app the label for default wireless password was incorrect.
  • There's a lot I really like about the Orbi sytem: Easy setup, good app, great coverage and speeds
  • The app is easy to use, and fairly powerful, but also limited
  • Going back to the Orbi app to see what was wrong, I found that the app was unable to access the Orbi main router
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Reviews around advertise (3.44 of 5)

  • While not necessary for basic function, I opted to set Static IP’s for our “core” devices (things that reside on the network 100% of the time)
  • No dislikes, really works as advertised and extremely easy to set up.
  • The unit was reasonably simple to install and worked completely as advertised for 41 days.
  • No dislikes, really works as advertised and extremely easy to set up.
  • This way, I have perfect signal all over the house, as well as in the garage and driveway
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Reviews around system (3.44 of 5)

  • Overall, it is a great system that will provide fast WiFi over a large space.
  • Overall, a great system to provide complete home coverage fpr your WiFi internet needs!
  • Excellent system to provide wi-fi access throughout a 3-story home with 2 “gamer” kids
  • While not necessary for basic function, I opted to set Static IP’s for our “core” devices (things that reside on the network 100% of the time)
  • The system would just crash and drop the internet connection
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Reviews around spot (1.00 of 5)

  • I've had issues with wifi dead spots in my house ever since we moved here.
  • In our three floor home, we have had our wifi output on the second floor, but that leads to dead spots in the first floor and the third floor
  • I was experiencing dead spots in the house and had troubles switching over from 5g to 2g where it wouldn't change when signal was weak.
  • I have a fairly large house where upstairs is a huge dead spot for WiFi
  • I had plenty of dead spots, sketchy signal in other areas, and throughput was overall weak
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Reviews around zone (1.00 of 5)

  • We had some critical dead zones with our previous router, but this has completely resolved them.
  • With the Orbi system, we put the satellites near the dead zones, got blue lights, and now here I am in my former dead zone with wonderful throughput
  • But now that I finally have everything working, it's great!I was tired of dead zones with my TP-Link Archer C9V1 (which is a great router by the way), and decided to finally bite the bullet on a better wifi system

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Reviews around customer service (1.00 of 5)

  • While not necessary for basic function, I opted to set Static IP’s for our “core” devices (things that reside on the network 100% of the time)
  • The customer service for Orbi is horrible and not knowledgeable.
  • That may change though if their customer service is as bad as others make them out to be.
  • While not necessary for basic function, I opted to set Static IP’s for our “core” devices (things that reside on the network 100% of the time)
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More about NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Mesh WiFi System - WiFi router and 2 satellite extenders with speeds up to 2.2 Gbps over 6,000 sq. feet, AC2200 (RBK23)

  • Orbi RBK23 by NETGEAR is a Whole Home WiFi System that delivers AC2200 WiFi up to 6,000 square feet
  • FastLane3 provides better 4K HD gaming & streaming, no matter how many devices connect
  • Circle with Disney Smart Parental Controls let you easily manage content & time online on any device.