The RBK752 comes with a short Netgear Armor online protection trial, available to many other Netgear routers. To use it, though, you'll need to resort to the mobile app. Similarly, you can also opt for Netgear Circle by Disney Parental Control feature, another entire app.

Netgear Orbi AX4200's hardware looks quite sleek from the top. Pre-sync hardware, the familiar setup process However, the router didn't do well with Wi-Fi 5 clients due to the lower Wi-Fi specs. I used a 4x4 one at the close range (10 feet) test, and it had a sustained speed of some 660Mbps. At 40 feet away, my 3x3 client averaged some 600Mbps. Still, these are impressive numbers. So when I wanted to upgrade our office wireless I went straight to the Orbi RBK750s. A base station and 3 satellites should do it.The minor downside of having mobile data built-in is that the router has fewer Gigabit Ethernet ports than the regular RBK752 system. Here, you get two Gigabit Ethernet ports for devices, and a Gigabit Ethernet WAN port. The latter can be used for connecting to standard broadband or, if you’re going 5G only, you can use it as an additional LAN port. Out of the box, the two hardware units are pre-synced. As a result, all you have to do is set up the RBR750 unit like a standalone router. After that, plug the RBS750 (satellite) unit at a reasonable distance, and you get yourself a full-operational mesh. It’s a shame that there’s no faster 2.5Gbps Ethernet port, as included on the higher-end Orbi RBK852 system. I would really appreciate your comments on my proposed configuration: I think a 4-unit Orbi system might be serviceable. ( RBK 754 ) Configure the Orbi Router as a wired access point off the ISP’s router, all on my main level. Only the Orbi router connects to the ISP’s gateway. Feed some local devices with Ethernet currently in place using unmanaged switches and a max of 3 hops. The Orbi router will be fairly centrally located on this level, adjacent to the ISP’s hardware.

While the Wi-Fi specs are reduced, for clients, this system still has eight streams of Wi-Fi 6 split across two devices, which is powerful. If you buy the RBK753, which adds in an extra satellite, then you’ve got 12 streams. Both share the same WAN Link Aggregation feature, where you can combine the WAN and LAN1 ports into a single 2Gbps WAN connection. This Link Aggregation feature is excellent when you use a supported modem and a faster-than-Gigabit Internet connection.

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This system’s performance is similar to that of the RBK752. Testing with a 2 x 2 network card, I saw speeds at close range of 442.92Mbps. Moving 5m away to the first floor, I saw speeds of 319.54Mbps; 10m away on the second floor, speeds reached 284.78Mbps. I then bought Linksys Velop MX10. It was good, but it was expensive. It seemed to perform well (flawless connectivity), but not quite as strong in performance as my initial Orbi RBK753 – namely, with Orbi speeds remain close to full (per the ISP), in between nodes (Satellites), and throughout more of the house, but Velop seemed to diminish by about ~30%.