NETGEAR RBK50 Orbi Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System (Router and Satellite Network), Tri-Band AC3000 (3.0 Gbps) - Circle Parental Controls and Alexa Enabled (RBK50-100UKS - white)

Great product. Works like a charm!

Update: With several email exchange with Netgear they agreed to replace. But now they are unable to find a way to do it. Unfortunately I have lost the window with Amazon to return the item. If only I can get Amazon and Netgear to agree on how to provide replacement. Ideally after so much of trouble I just want a refund. I will go for something other than Netgear this time.Review 2: The issues with the new router continue. Even when there is a line of sight connection between Router and Satellite the connection remains "poor". Also Satellite loses sync with the router and all devices connected via the satellite in one part of the house go offline. One has to click the Sync Buttons again to sync them to get Internet back.Review 1: Disappointed with Netgear Routers. I gave benefit of doubt to the old one R6300v2 that I was happy about the range but it kept going offline and needed resets as hardware fatigue.I bought a new one RBK50 (AC3000) with longer range but seem to have made a mistake to go for Netgear again. This one is also going offline. Within 36 hours of its use it has given lots of troubles. Satellite also takes a long time to connect as if it is struggling.Probably need to return it and try another make. Let us see what reply I get from Netgear as I have opened a case with them.

Using as an access point. Could not use as router.

The router is a good one when it works. It is elegant and looks good when placed in a room, which is much better than many others are like. The setup was easy and straightforward, the speed is good, and the range is good. It comes with some good control functions (parent/child limitations, etc). Initially, the settings for the router were quite strict that some pages would not load, but after researching it and making a slight adjustment to the settings, it was fine. It's great to have a mesh network in a house where the devices seamlessly switch between units as you move around the house.The biggest problem with this router is that the satellite unit disconnects from the base at unpredictable times (it actually might have a sick sense of humor as it seems to pick the worst possible times to do so). I tried moving it closer to the base unit (tried multiple locations), but the problem persisted. It had 2 or 3 firmware updates since I bought it, but it still disconnects. I now use my phone hotspot as a backup in case the signal is lost on the satellite and make sure to move to the room where the base unit is for important meetings, to avoid embarrassing situations and signal problems. It's really disappointing because otherwise, it would have been an incredible router if it just remained reliable.I will be upgrading to Wifi 6 router, but am reluctant to get the Orbi mesh wifi6 because I don't want to go through the satellite problems again.P.S. Ironically, the internet signal from the satellite unit disconnected when I tried to submit this review the first time.

I researched this product a lot and found a lot of amazing and fantastic reviews, I had been researching and reading all the ORBI mesh systems since over a year and after carefully reading each review decided to place my order, knowing that I could always return it if it has some problems like a small percentage of the people who did buy the ORBI mesh system.I wanted to like it, it easy to install and setup. The Orbi app is great for troubleshooting and dealing with most things by yourself.BUT I have not had more than a days network without interruption. The satellite would either disconnect or the internet would drop from the satellite.Moved the satellite around closer and then further to different locations. Called Netgear for support and they are helpful. But having spent all this money and then having to keep spending hours on trying to figure out the issue is just not worth it.When it works it’s brilliant but when it doesn’t. The hassle isn’t worth it.If I cannot find a solution in another week I will be returning the product.

Satelite keeps loosing connection to the router as it is constantly switching from 2.4Gh to 5Gh and vice versa. Went back to the 2 routers. Money wasted.

It just keeps dropping. Really disappointed with this product.

Top au niveau rapidité (jusqu'à 350Mb/s) . Top au niveau répartition signal entre base et satellite donc le récepteur (ordi, téléphone...) reçois toujours le meilleur signal possible.

ORIGINAL REVIEW please see update below.I knew that this was overkill when I opted for it (the RBK30, or certainly the RBK40, would probably have done the job) but, at the time, the prices between the three kits on amazon made the RBK50 the logical choice.Setup was a breeze - really couldn't have been any easier.We're now getting 74 Mbs throughout the 5 apartment flat. Previously, with a BT Wi-FI extender in the sitting room, we were getting 4 to 6 Mbs, depending on the time of day.The router is in the office - which is at the opposite end of the flat to the sitting room - and is connected to a BT Home Hub 5. The satellite is in the sitting room. All walls in between are made of brick.As a bonus, we also get 50-60 Mbs in both the front and rear communal gardens and the flat is on the second floor.It's been in for a couple of weeks now and, so far, has been stable.I reckon this will turn out to be Install-And-Forget, which is just as it should be.Very happy with the purchase and would highly recommend.======= UPDATED at 9 Months In ===========One of the devices I had connected to this by Wi-Fi was an amazon Fire TV Box. This was connected - for audio - with other devices through a switching box by an SPDIF cable to a SONOS Playbase.I would get an intermittent but regular micro drop-out on audio (0.25seconds) while streaming movies or shows through it. Really annoying. Plugging in an ethernet cable - which connects through a Netgear switch to the SONOS Playbase and would then be using the SONOS mesh system - would temporarily solve the problem. This Sonos Mesh is ultimately connected to the Orbi Router again by ethernet which may or may not just be a pass through to a BT HH6 which has now replaced the BT HH5.Restarting the Orbi Satellite in the sitting room would also solve it - for maybe an hour or so.These micro drop-outs only happened while streaming TV - not when watching Broadcast TV or Blu-rays or listening to music through the SONOS Playbase.When I added into the set-up an X-Box ONE S (reporting in excess of 70Mbps over Wi-Fi) and was getting the same problem while streaming as I had with the Fire TV I figured I might as well try a BT Powerline adaptor (reporting in excess of 60Mbps) which I still had in use elsewhere in the house for a NON WI-Fi Humax Box.Glad I did. Problem solved - No drop-outs.The BT PowerLine adaptors are connected directly to the BT HH6 - NOT the Orbi Router.Nothing is now connected to the Ethernet port on the SONOS Playbase - it all goes through the Netgear switch to the Powerline adaptor.Ultimately, although I had one, I had to buy another pair of Powerline adaptors as the one I had was needed elsewhere. Ironically I'd sold a pair when I got the Orbi.There is now NO TV Streaming over Wi-Fi - it all goes through the Netgear switch to the Powerline adaptor.The Orbi Satellite will stay in the sitting room but the bandwidth that will now go through it will be greatly reduced as most of it will now be going through the Powerline adaptors.I'm still happy with the Orbi. Perhaps though not quite as much as I was two weeks in when I wrote the original review.In all other respects the Orbi has been stable.The Powerline adapters are achieving speeds 6 to 8 times faster when connected to the BT HH6 than they were when connected the the old BT HH5. ======= end of first update ================ second update 6, March 2019 ========I was having a problem with the SONOS Mesh - mentioned above - which is a stand alone system to stream music to my SONOS Network with the SONOS Network itself creating its own Mesh.Anyway, when streaming from my personal music collection on an external Hard Drive connected to my MAC it'd regularly drop the connection and report "insufficient bandwidth to maintain the buffer".Relevance to the Orbi?Well, I've switched to a Wi-Fi setup for SONOS so all music now goes through the Orbi Mesh to my SONOS Network now with no issues streaming from the Hard Drive.It's been very stable since I initiated the change a week ago.So, back to loving the Orbi.====== end second update ============== third update 12, December 2020 ========I changed my TV to an LG OLED with Netflix & Prime apps built in.6 Month ago I went back to streaming TV over Wi-Fi through the Orbi Mesh and it has all been very stable. None of the previous issues with audio dropouts - it's all good. ====== end third update ============== fourth update April 2022 ========Four years in and all going well - in fact I forget it's there most of the time. It really was a great buying decision.My neighbour's family were recently without access to Wifi for about a week or so, can't remember why. I setup a guest account with their own password and they could get 50Mbps+ connection through their floor.I recently swapped-out the X-Box ONE S for the Panasonic DP-UB820EB to cover 4K & Blu-ray duties. I sold the X-Box - I don't play games so was only using it as a 4K Player that did not have Dolby Vision.Anyway the Panasonic does and it integrated seamlessly into the Orbi/Sonos setup. Not only is the Picture better than the X-Box but the sound most definitely is as well.So, another great buying decision.

We finally got FTTP installed to our house, for the past 4 years I've been relying on a 4g Netgear nighthawk M1 to bring internet into our home, which has at times been painful, especially during bad weather in winter....Now that we have got a great broadband connection, that we have reliable WiFi to match it (fibre 500).... As a software engineer I looked long and hard at the different options and wanted a system that was future proof. I don't see us needing anything faster than a 500mbps connection any time soon! ....of course the obvious choice is to look at products that support WiFi6 as that's the latest tech, but unless you have a silly number of devices heabily using the WiFi (that doesn't include a few IoT / smart home devices) there's simply no need to have WiFi6 at home. This router when close can give speeds of 750mbps to my phone, and when in other rooms of the house it hovers between 200 (worst) to about 400, so honestly more than good enough.... The WiFi devices in my home are my 2xTVs and the connect no bother and stream 4k content with ease, simultaneously. Our phones (mostly for web browsing which isn't data hungry) And a few smart devices....I'm using the Orbi as my router (RBR50), which is connected directly to the ONT on the wall, no BT router involved.... connecting it to my BT broadband service was very easy, it detected the connection type and all I had to do was enter the username and password (simple to find using google). My router is placed on the ground floor of my house towards the rear corner (see attached floorplan photo). From my router I have a 25metre CAT6 ethernet cable that runs to the roof space and into the second floor "study" where it plus into an ethernet switch. Also plugged into that is my NAS box, a few other devices I tinker with occasionally, and my Hive home hub. From there I also have another 20m ethernet cable that runs back down to a bedroom on the first floor which is used as my home office. That plugs into the Orbi satellite (RBS50) and provides me with strong mesh WiFi for my work laptop (750mbps).WiFi signal is very good throughout my house using this setup, I've not noticed any connection issues with the router to satellite connection, but them my system is using ethernet backhaul which should be reliable. WiFi throughput is more than good enough for a home network, the Orbi app is a little limited, I prefer the web interface which gives much more options and advanced control, but I have a custom home network configuration with my NAS providing local DNS and DHCP.All in all, yesterdays premium tech for the same budget at today's budget options. I'm happy with mine, I don't mind it's not WiFi 6 as it easily provides enough capacity for a fibre500 internet connection and home network. Don't hesitate to buy this for £150 it's great value!

le produit est livré en prise anglaise !!!non spécifié sur les caractéristiques ,a ce prix la il serait souhaitable de préciser ouvertement que ce produit est destiné au marché anglais et non européen.

It took me some time to make up my mind to buy something like this. We've managed with a powerline connection for the TV and a WiFi booster for quite a while now. Increasingly - probably partly due to lockdowns - it seemed silly to have an indifferent connection to the internet in the room that was usually used to connect to it. In the end various reviews and the like led me to this.Setup - I was wary about just using the app given some of the comments in reviews so I was prepared to switch to a browser if needed. However it actually all went fairly well. The suggestion that I use my old WiFi name and password was a good one and easy to do. It saved quite a bit of time changing all the devices etc. I think these things can succeed or fail as much due to the layout of the house and construction as much as anything else. Our house (bungalow) is roughly L shaped and fairly modern. The original router is on one of the arms, the lounge with the TV on the other. This new router and satellite connected easily enough and in the lounge we now have near max possible speeds which is roughly 50% higher than they were. The TV runs on it fine and it doesn't really seem to matter how many devices are attached as far as speed is concerned. Along the "spine" of the 2 devices the speed is great however move to the far corner of the L and the speed/connection is less good.However - and DO read this if you have anything connected to your existing router by cable.This devices seems to only connect to the original router on a LAN - WAN basis. This means basically that file and print sharing services cannot be used. More basically if you have a wired device(s) - certainly hard drives and likely printer - you won't really see them after this finishes its setup. I've spent half a day following various instructions on line about connecting two routers on a LAN to LAN basis. Three factory resets later I've come to the conclusion that this device will not work like that. It has an "internet" post connection on the back. If you use this you get LAN to WAN and WiFi is fine. If you don't use that port (internet instructions tell you not to for LAN to LAN) it will appear to connect according to the original router but will not do so in practice. Essentially you get a new network that does not allow you to see the old one.While the app is certainly OK I would suggest caution on believing the speed tests it does. As I said above the corner of the house (previously not bad on WiFi) is less good with this system. However doing a speed check on the app suggested I had full speed. However using BT speed tester and another one came up with figures 50% lower... You have been warned. The other slight caveat is that it really does like apps like 1.1.1.1 which speeds up DNS stuff and is more private - it will cause issues for the setup of this and at times in the running of it.So - snags definitely but the WiFi performance suggests I should find ways to get around them or live with them. I will update this if anything else occurs to me and comments are more than welcome :-)**OK - updated. Extra star added and LAN - LAN problem solved**After I'd written this I found a somewhat obscure setting on the admin page for this which solves the LAN - LAN issue very easily - when you find it!! On the "advanced" tab and in the "advanced setting" there is a "mode" one. Here you can select whether this acts as a router or just an access point. Setting it to Access Point means you still get all the WiFi benefits AND anything attached to the original router can still be seen. My NAS devices are fully functional again.