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  1. pete y testing

    News Netgear Adds Wi-Fi 6 Mesh System And AC3000 Mesh Extender To Orbi Line

    not sure what you mean here the architecture of the RBK50 allowed multiple sats to connect and have full backhaul sync and speeds for the front end clients connected to each sat or node without congestion with the same client speed as backhaul the backhaul will be saturated easily with one...
  2. pete y testing

    News Netgear Adds Wi-Fi 6 Mesh System And AC3000 Mesh Extender To Orbi Line

    greetings all the elephant in the room is they are not using full ax speed for backhaul or 5 gig full ax is 4804Mbps sync rate netgear are using 2400 they are ether only using 80mhz or only 3 streams i also see no reason to have the backhaul the same speed the front side 5 gig client wifi...
  3. pete y testing

    RT-AC88U

    try setting channels on both 2.4 gig and 5 gig to a set ch and not auto
  4. pete y testing

    And So It Begins... Asus Announces First 802.11ax Router

    and AX isnt really designed for the home user right , its designed for higher scale connections where many many wifi devices connect
  5. pete y testing

    Synology RT2600ac Router Reviewed

    the problem there is the inability for opensource to use the factory wifi drivers and are limited to using generic wifi drivers , thus wifi is not as good overall when open source is used
  6. pete y testing

    [Official Beta] AiMesh beta firmware for RT-AC68U/RT-AC86U/RT-AC5300/RT-AC88U

    aimesh is designed for none ethernet backhaul and as such uses wifi backhaul without the known 50% cycle loss that older repeaters and extenders have
  7. pete y testing

    Circle And NETGEAR Team Up For Enhanced Parental Control Features

    the router of course is , the free version of the dysney circle is very limited , the paid for version does work but imho hardly any different to netgears free opendns which isnt that hard to use ether
  8. pete y testing

    Circle And NETGEAR Team Up For Enhanced Parental Control Features

    its mainly for those that think throwing money at their problem will solve it and no need to think any more about it
  9. pete y testing

    Synology RT2600ac Router Reviewed

    the wifi on the r7800 is not as good the rt-ac86u has the newer e series broadcom chipset and is better , the rt-ac86u has a faster cpu as well the r7800 also doesnt have ai protection not many of the features of the asus
  10. pete y testing

    Synology RT2600ac Router Reviewed

    thats a good upgrade from the rt-ac1900p but as you are aware new things come up all the time
  11. pete y testing

    Linksys Re-launches WRT32X Gaming router

    tbh both are over rated and you would be better investing in the rt-ac86u
  12. pete y testing

    Norton Core Router Reviewed

    the relevance of the internal v external is far less relevent today than it was back in the days of non beamforming and wireless N , prettymuch both internal and external antennas have reached and well past the max eirp level ) transmission power ) the only real way to get better coverage...
  13. pete y testing

    Synology RT2600ac Router Reviewed

    so whats your focus ? iot security of just general security the asus blue cave is just about to be released there is the norton cube the asus rt-ac86u has the new aiprotect for iot as well just be quite specific on what you want and we can recommend what best for you that is available now...
  14. pete y testing

    Synology RT2600ac Router Reviewed

    it is what it is , and wont be fixed , its not that bad just not as good as others are tbh at this stage i wouldnt buy the synology even if you wanted it for its ips as there are new models coming out with specific defenses for IoT and the like , the landscape is changing along with the router...
  15. pete y testing

    Synology RT2600ac Router Reviewed

    nothing like closing the gate after the horse has bolted warning your computer has just sent your credit card details to the cloud !!!!
  16. pete y testing

    Review NETGEAR EX8000 Nighthawk X6S Tri-Band WiFi Range Extender Reviewed

    because at this stage there is very little need for a 4 x 4 AP as almost all clients are 2 x 2 or will work fine on 2 x 2 , thats why most of the mesh units are also 2 x 2 for their front haul
  17. pete y testing

    Review NETGEAR EX8000 Nighthawk X6S Tri-Band WiFi Range Extender Reviewed

    but it all taxes the cpu when it should be doing the routing
  18. pete y testing

    Review NETGEAR EX8000 Nighthawk X6S Tri-Band WiFi Range Extender Reviewed

    but really does anyone use usb these days apart from printers i have tested and used the ex8000 and as tim says it brings the orbi to the masses , best used if you have a tri band router and can dedicate the high 5 gig band to the back haul for the ex8000 the WAF is not all that big an issue...
  19. pete y testing

    RT-AC88U

    turn smart connect off and have different ssid for 2.4 gig and 5 gig then connect the 5 gig devices to just the 5 gig ssid
  20. pete y testing

    Wi-Fi System Roundup

    certainly , but that adapter may be a cause as well
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