NETGEAR Orbi Outdoor satellite WiFi extender, works with any WiFi router, gateway, or ISP rented equipment (RBS50Y)
February 12, 2020 - Comment
Orbi outdoor Wi-Fi mesh extender or add-on Satellite extends your Wi-Fi outdoors. It works with your existing Wi-Fi router. The weather-resistant design is built to withstand rain, sun, snow, dust or Sprinklers. Work in the garage or garden and keep your devices connected with a strong Wi-Fi signal. Product Features High-performance WiFi coverage outdoors Weather-resistant,
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Poor Technical Support for Failing Unit Which Required RMA Return I purchased the Orbi Satellite recently, and after 6 weeks it failed. Contacting Netgear technical support was a little maddening. They only provide tech support in the first 3 months, after which you have to pay $50 for “Premier Service.” So what happens if you ordered the unit from Amazon in April, and because it is out of stock it doesn’t arrive until June? Yup, you guessed it, you have to pay $50 for a unit that is now out of free tech support.Also, their tech support was…
Huge Improvement with New Firmware Don’t buy this product. The hardware is great. When it works, it works wonderfully. However, as of the date of this post, the Orbi has been crippled by its firmware for around three weeks. Appreciating that a firmware update can have unintended consequences, and hoping that a fix may be forthcoming, Netgear’s completely inadequate handling of the situation suggests to me that this company is one you will not want to trust going forward.I purchased this product about 6 months ago. I…
Make sure that your network is working properly before adding this device! All sorts of problems adding this to the network! As it turns out, a pushed (automatic) firmware update from Netgear didn’t work correctly; it updated the router, but not the satellite! The mismatched firmware versions caused problems that adversely affected adding this device to the network. Once the original satellite had been manually updated to match the routers firmware version (which fixed some serious communications issues between the router and satellite that also made updating the…