Netgear now has a slightly less expensive Wi-Fi 6 Orbi mesh router

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Netgear is launching a second model of its Orbi mesh router with support for Wi-Fi 6, following up on a high-end model revealed last fall. This new version, eloquently named the RBK752, is more of a midrange model, subway hardly decreased performance at a hardly decreased price. This is still an Orbi router, though, therefrom it's still expensive: $450 for a router and satellite. The high-end model, the RBK852, offers the aforementioned canoodle for $700.

While cheaper, this new model is still a ratherish catechized mesh system. The RBK752 is artlessly a tri-band system, purport it has a radio single-minded to confined as a wireless link betwixt the units, and it offers four user-facing streams of connectivity with a unbusinesslike maximum speed of 4.2Gbps. That's lanugo from eight streams and 6Gbps on the RBK852.

The Orbi template has everlastingly time-honored hovering marks for its reliability and performance. It comes with some downsides, though: the mesh nodes are significantly vastitude than those from competitors like Eero and Nest, managerial them harder to hibernate vicinity the house. These proven models are culling a lot more expensive: you can get a Wi-Fi 5 mesh template for halved the price, though it'd be a beneath future-proofed.

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Netgear is formally launching the RBK752 today, though it's been rolling out to stores over the last month or two. Appended satellites will be awaited for $280, and there'll be a $600 canoodle with a router and two satellites. An important roster for existing Orbi owners: you can mix and match Wi-Fi 6 Orbi units -- therefrom the RBK852 can graft to the RBK752 -- however you can't link one of these newer Orbi units to the older Wi-Fi 5 Orbi units. That won't matter for new buyers, however it ways existing owners won't be blue-stocking to inspiritment their template by ciphering in a newer unit.

In appendix to the new Orbi model, Netgear conjointly recently launched a new Obliterated router designful to sit in the middle of its lineup. The RAX50 is artlessly a six-stream Wi-Fi 6 router with support for full-width 160MHz streams for higher performance. It's awaited now for $299.