NETGEAR RBK14-100NAS Orbi AC1200 Dual-Band Mesh Wi-Fi System (4-Pack) ? White

This will not work with chrome book works great with everything else

We bought this product for a three level, 2500 hundred square feet house with an attached garage with an office over the garage. We were hoping to have a good Internet signal throughout our home... To our surprise, we not only have great Internet throughout our house...we also have great Internet reception on most of our one acre lot. I highly recommend this product.We did have a slight problem a couple days after first hooking this up and we were having a hard time signing into the Internet. We went to their troubleshooting page which told us how to reset the system which took a few seconds and we have had great service ever since. We have been using this system with a Netgear Nighthawk and an antenna. We live in a rural area about two and a half miles from an AT&T tower and our experience has been great.

This is listed on Amazon as a mesh system, but it is not. In a mesh system, all of the units communicate with each other. This system consists of a router and three satellites. The satellites don’t communicate with each other. Each must connect independently to the router. I suppose if your modem is in the center of your house, it could work; but if you’re like me and have a modem at one end of the house and you’re trying to spread signal to the rest of the house, they’re useless.You’re instructed to place and plug up all four units before programming the system. I put the router in the upstairs bedroom where the modem is, the first satellite in the other upstairs bedroom (across the hall), the second satellite in the living room downstairs, and the third in the master bedroom downstairs. I programmed the system then went to do speed checks. In the second bedroom upstairs, I had about a ten percent drop in speed; in the living room, a fifty percent drop; and in the master bedroom, the satellite couldn’t stay connected to the router for more than a few seconds.I am returning these and purchasing a real mesh system.In fairness to Netgear, the word “mesh” does not appear anywhere on the box. It’s just the Amazon listing that claims it’s a mesh system.

I have internet everywhere, and I do mean everywhere. I set up one unit upstairs, two downstairs (this includes the router) and one in the garage. I never lose connectivity. From the street to the alley, I have no issues connecting to the web with this mesh node. They are a bit bulky, but I am sure as technology advances they will get smaller. Still not too bulky at all.

I have been struggling for a very long time from dropping signals finally I have great signal without watching a circle going round and round on my screen. I have a large 2 story house and work shop and I have great signal everywhere even my ring camera in the tool shed in my back yard works now. This is a wonderful product and extremely easy to set up as well

I purchased this Netgear Orbi whole house mesh Wifi system in June of 2020. I didn't realize that it was not auto updating the firmware, but noticed it on my own after several firmware updates had passed. After hours of work trying to update the firmware for both the router and the satellites, I noticed that I could not update the components through a wireless connection, it had to be done using an ethernet cable attached to the router. How do you do this on a totally wireless household? The only potential wired device I could use would be a desktop on the 2nd floor of my condo. I would have to completely tear the desktop down and move it to the basement to do this using an ethernet cable! I also did not realize how obsolete the product I purchased was until I installed it in my condo. Not very much fun for me. I suppose I'll have to trash this system and start over. Make sure when you purchase your whole house wireless system that you can update the firmware wirelessly!!!

I've been using Netgear equipment for nearly 20 years now. The tech support has always been excellent and set up nearly stupid proof. This system is as easy to set up as anything I have ever used and the app is very intuitive. Nor can you beat signal strength and speed.

I got this unit to replace my old NETGEAR router which did not provide adequate coverage. This unit works great with excellent coverage for a large home.Installation may be simple for an experienced person, but I watched the installation video on YouTube before. Without watching the video, I could have encountered some difficulties, and could be challenging.I recommend the unit, but watch an installation video before trying to activate this unit.