“I currently have the Netgear NightHawk router. Will this be better than that, and should I get rid of that one?”
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Orbi is better than Nighthawk. I just got Orbi and am giving my Nighthawk to my son. In my house, the Orbi provides much better whole house performance than the NIghthawk did, particularly in the bonus room built over the garage, off-set to the rest of the house and surrounded by walls and stairwell. I put the satellite up there and the main Orbi unit on the main floor. For my downstairs internet is vastly improved over the Nighthawk. I have to have the main Orbi not in an ideal loation on th emiddle level because of the ethernet tie-in to the modem and distribution box, but there are now no slow or dead spots downstairs. Instructions say to put it direcdtly into the modem, but mine is hardwired into a distribution box in a storage closet and there is no electrical plug even close to it so I just used one of the two working ethernet outlets and it works fine. And btw, the NIghthawk was a big improvement over the previous Netgear router I used, which was top of the line at the time, but for my multi-level home I needed something better so for Orbi to out-do Nighthawk buy wuite a margin is saying something.. Two other things not related to performance. The Orbi really just LOOKS better and the NIghthawk, as cool as it looked and as easy as it was to adjust the ant., it gathered dust and here in Hawaii, the dust is Hawaiian red dirt. So this will be much easier to maintain. Set-up was very fast and my Sonos system picked it up instantly so I did not have to reset each speaker. separately which was terrific. I do have to reset my Ring Doorbell and the chimes individually but will do that today. So far, so good. Terrific product. Looks good in the house but REALLY has improved the performance on all three levels. I do not think I will need a downstairs satellite for the house unless I need to extend range in the back yard, but I will have to test that out as I use the yard. Bravo, Orbi
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.* I will be referring to NightHawk as "NH". I think the best way to answer this is to evaluate your home and it's layout. If you live in a large home and constantly find yourself in dead spots with sluggish internet or connectivity issues with your current NH, then yes, definitely try Orbi. Another scenario would be is if you've been trying to get Wi-Fi access in let's say your garage or one of the furthest rooms in the house from your NH and your NH is simply not cutting it this will likely improve your coverage. However, if you're typically near your NH or just one room over, you may not notice a significant difference in terms of speed or coverage given that spec wise they both operate on 802.11 AC, tri-band, and support MU-MIMO. The Orbi was designed to have a dedicated channel from the router to the satellite gateway to provide that additional coverage with this two device system. I hope this helped.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hay Freddy, I wouldn't make the change unless your looking for easier smart home setup. This unit is being pushed out for better smart home integration for example Euro, Luma, Google OnHub connectivity. If you're thinking about heading that way I'd recommended this Orbi for that since this is it's main function it manages the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands a little better than your current unit but nothing that would be a huge difference.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes. It is much better than X6 or X8. I am getting 300+ mbps in all over the places in my house.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you have a lot of interference in your home, either with multiple devices or from nearby neighbor, yes, this device is a much better choice than the Nighthawk, which is what I previously had.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.keep the router if you need to use the usb for hard drive, printer, etc support. But I hooked mine up just strictly for the printer since the ORBI just blew the nighthawk out of the water with the wifi speed and range. I can now cover my whole apt with one unit and with the satellite hooked up I can get wifi almost half way up my block.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you experience weak/no internet connection with Netgear NightHawk then Netgear Orbi should be able to fix that.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I previously owned a Nighthawk X6 and more recently a Linksys EA9500 (which was a vast improvement over the Nighthawk). I have been using the Orbi system for about a week now and I can say that in a two story home I have noticed significant improvement in signal strength and throughput over the EA9500. If you have some weak or dead zones in your house now, the Orbi system could most likely fix them.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It depends on which NightHawk router you have from Netgear. Typically the NightHawk series represents upper tier AC Routers if that is the case then I would suggest simply a range extender although this is a very nice complete solution.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Really, I don't think that its better than the nighthawk.
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