Netgear Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Tri-band Mesh System brings reliable WiFi to your small business

Netgear's new Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Mesh system can give your small business fast, reliable internet connectivity with plenty of room to grow into.

If your small business has low WiFi coverage, Netgear may have the solution. Netgear's newly launched Netgear Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Tri-band Mesh System is designed to blanket up to 18,000 square feet in reliable, high-speed wireless internet.

Compared to the previous generation, the new Orbi Pro WiFi 6 system can handle four times the connected devices and has 100% higher speed per router and satellite unit. Its high capacity means it leaves plenty of room for businesses to add devices as they grow. It also allows customers to access the same high-speed internet as employees without your business suffering.

It has dedicated quad-stream WiFi 6 backhaul, OFDMA, and MU-MIMO, which will provide high-performance WiFi for years to come. It supports the latest iOS and Android WiFi 6 mobile devices, and is backward-comatible with both WiFi 4 and WiFi 5.

The Orbi Pro system also has excellent wired connectivity, thanks to a 2.5Gbps Ethernet port on the router and the back of each satellite. This allows for speeds of over a gigabit. All Orbi Pro devices feature two 4GbE ports, allowing for link aggregation. This feature can double the bandwidth between the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 node and connected devices using two Ethernet cables to form a single link.

The Orbi Pro WiFi 6 system is capable of delivering up to 6Gbps of data throughput. The system boasts tri-band 12-stream WiFi — four streams on 2.4GHz and eight on 5Ghz.

This mesh system also includes advanced management features, including a one-year Insight subscription, instant discovery and setup of the Orbi Pro WiFi 6, and remote management through the Insight app.

The NETGEAR Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Tri-band Mesh System is available for purchase in the United States and will ship by the end of September, starting at $769.99 for a single router and one satellite.

Additional bundles will be available later in 2020 and will allow users to select from the following:

One router and two satellites - $1099.99
One router and three satellites - $1498.99
A single add-on satellite unit - $419.99

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21 Comments

pichael 49 comments · 13 Years

About 4 years ago

I still long for the day Apple makes a triumphant return to this space. Yet I won’t be holding my breath. These seem great but I need more affordable. Great Review.

mike1 3431 comments · 10 Years

pichael said:

I still long for the day Apple makes a triumphant return to this space. Yet I won’t be holding my breath. These seem great but I need more affordable. Great Review.

Then you should look at one of the many Orbi systems designed for home, not business requirements. Much less expensive. Probably don't need WiFi6 either.

rotateleftbyte 1630 comments · 12 Years

How much for this Subscription? How long before Netgear discontunes the service? Those are the sort of questions businesses will want answered before shelling out $$$ for this stuff. People and Companies are getting wise to the Subscriptions "Shell Game".

tenthousandthings 1060 comments · 17 Years

Does this usually mean the home versions will get an update soon?

Our AirPort Extreme home network is due for an update — the lack of mesh capabilities has caused a few problems lately.

Any recommendations? eero vs. Velop vs. Orbi?

dewme 5733 comments · 10 Years

pichael said:

I still long for the day Apple makes a triumphant return to this space. Yet I won’t be holding my breath. These seem great but I need more affordable. Great Review.

The acquisition costs of these systems should only be one part of the purchase decision. Whether it's a system for home or a business, the total cost of ownership (TCO) should the real make or break data point, especially when it comes to administration, network management, functionality, and extensibility. Required subscriptions or having to pay for updates should also be factored into the TCO.

In my opinion, Apple hit a sweet spot for home users and some small businesses with their former line of AirPort networking products because the administration and management costs were so low. Where they were lacking, for business users mostly, was on functionality and extensibility. Sure, you could add more nodes fairly easily, but they didn't offer any different types of access points or networking appliances, like firewalls, backup WAN connectivity, redundancy, exterior APs, managed nodes/switches, remote gateways, performance monitoring, guest portals, etc.

The biggest differentiator, imho, for folks who are considering more upscale networking solutions that are capable of more than what most home-oriented consumer systems offer is the administration and setup requirements for the person who will be doing the work. I particularly like solutions like Ubiquiti/UniFi that start off with what I'd say are more hands-on consumer solutions at the low end (which are still more work than AirPorts) but can span much further up into business oriented solutions than anything AirPorts could ever hope to achieve. With Ubiquiti/UniFi you can put together a very complete solution for home use or small/medium business (and beyond) with tons of extensibility, but you can never really scale it down to where Apple's AirPorts were. It's not difficult by any means, but it's definitely not zero-admin or no-touch.

So ... to really get a feel for where this Netgear Orbi Pro fits in at its price point I'd have to have more insight into its admin requirements, what kinds of extensibility are available, and of course its full set of features. This level of detail is beyond the scope of what I'd expect to see on AppleInsider, but it's great that they have brought it to our attention so folks who want to dig deeper have a jumping off point to do so.