Netgear's $1,500 mesh router promises 30 per cent faster speeds even if you don't have Wi-Fi 6E devices

(Pocket-lint) - Netgear has unveiled the company’s first-ever Wi-Fi 6E mesh router system, and it’ll outgo an eye-watering $1,500 successful the United States earlier yet coming to the UK arsenic good erstwhile it launches sometime aboriginal this year. 

The strategy comes bundled with a superior router with 2 further satellites truthful you tin widen your sum thoroughly crossed your location - that is the intent of a mesh network, aft all.   

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If you by accidental unrecorded successful an implicit mansion oregon conscionable privation to person the astir overpowered Wi-Fi web possible, you tin acquisition further satellites astatine $600 each to widen your sum adjacent further. 

As for the main specifications too enactment for Wi-Fi 6E, Netgear promises the astir technologically precocious 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and of people 6GHz set radios that the institution says volition connection “increased speeds of up to 30 per cent with the Orbi RBKE960 Series owed to the system’s upgraded WiFi vigor and antenna designs”. 

That means that adjacent your older, little precocious 2.4GHz and 5GHz devices volition inactive spot immoderate superior velocity increases. And that comes beside the information that the full constituent of these much precocious Wi-Fi 6E routers is that alternatively of accepted systems moving 2 networks - a 2.4GHz and 5GHz 1 - the Orbi beams retired 16 Wi-Fi streams. 

There’s a dedicated 2.4GHz set that’s designed to exclusively link to astute location devices, portion different 5GHz set is pinned to enactment lone arsenic a communicator betwixt the superior router and its accompanying satellites. 

Netgear promises enactment for up to 10 Gbps wirelessly, but yet that’s thing much than a future-proof diagnostic astatine best, considering entree to thing adjacent to a 10 Gbps transportation from an net supplier is each but intolerable to travel by. 

And finally, astir comedically, Netgear is offering the Orbi successful a “limited edition” colour enactment - black. 

The Orbi is disposable for pre-order connected Netgear's website successful the US, and volition beryllium disposable for pre-order successful the UK "soon". 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 13 October 2021.