Netgear Orbi Quad-Band Mesh WiFi 6E System (RBKE963): Fast but expensive wireless mesh networking
The price is high, but Netgear's new Wi-Fi 6E mesh system delivers fast performance and wide coverage for homes and home offices.
The price is high, but Netgear's new Wi-Fi 6E mesh system delivers fast performance and wide coverage for homes and home offices.
Netgear adds support for the latest 6GHz Wi-Fi 6E standard to its flagship router, which supports throughput of up to 10.8Gbps and 'fast and reliable' connections for up to 60 devices.
This mesh Wi-Fi router offers 4G LTE broadband as either a primary or secondary backup internet connection. It's a good 802.11ac (WiFi 5) router, but we'd like to see an 802.11ax (WiFi 6) version.
The Orbi Pro WiFi 6 is expensive, but its speed and ability to configure multiple networks for different groups makes it a good option for business users who are now working from home.
A Wifi 6 mesh system could prove a sensible investment if you want to future-proof your home or office network for the IoT era.
It's not the fastest or the cheapest consumer VPN, but this privacy-first service does a good job of making advanced features like split tunnelling accessible even on the free tier.
It's still early days for WiFi 6, so the Orbi WiFi 6 mesh system isn't an essential upgrade at the moment. But if you can afford it, there's impressive performance and capacity on offer.
It's not cheap, but Netgear's portable Nighthawk M2 can access 4GX LTE mobile broadband at up to 2Gbps, create a local wi-fi network, plug into a wired network and recharge your mobile devices if need be.
It's small, neat, well-priced, and has some clever features, but this wi-fi mesh system doesn't match its rivals for coverage or speed.
It's still early days for the Wi-Fi 6 standard, but products based on the Draft 3.0 version are now available, including Netgear's Nighthawk AX range.