NETGEAR RBK752, RBK762S New Model

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While they are not wall-mountable out of the box, they also have screw holes for mounting accessories. They also look slightly better too, with a sleek and somewhat concave top. Netgear Orbi AX4200 (RBK752): detail photos The Netgear Orbi AX4200 RBK752's retail box. I then bought Linksys Velop MX10. It was good, but it was expensive. It seemed to perform well (flawless connectivity), but not quite as strong in performance as my initial Orbi RBK753 – namely, with Orbi speeds remain close to full (per the ISP), in between nodes (Satellites), and throughout more of the house, but Velop seemed to diminish by about ~30%. With a satellite connected 50-feet from the router on the same floor and the test system another 40-feet away, the RBK752 mesh network came up short with 87.7Mbps of data delivered to the test system. That’s roughly half the Linksys Velop AX4200 (161.1Mbps), although it’s a lot better than the Netgear Orbi RBK852 (39.1Mbps). The Eero Pro 6 kit was in between with 142.3Mbps of bandwidth. The satellite is the same as on the regular RBK752 system. This has two Gigabit Ethernet ports for wired devices. Features

This system’s performance is similar to that of the RBK752. Testing with a 2 x 2 network card, I saw speeds at close range of 442.92Mbps. Moving 5m away to the first floor, I saw speeds of 319.54Mbps; 10m away on the second floor, speeds reached 284.78Mbps. It's impossible to look at the RBK752 without thinking of its older and beefier cousin RBK852. That's because the two are almost the same. They share the same mobile app, web interface, settings, features, and physical design -- with the former being a tad smaller.

Our Orbi RBK752 review: The verdict

The RBK752 comes with a short Netgear Armor online protection trial, available to many other Netgear routers. To use it, though, you'll need to resort to the mobile app. Similarly, you can also opt for Netgear Circle by Disney Parental Control feature, another entire app. My original plan was to return them after i got something better. I have 9000 sq ft home. These worked so good out of the box, i just got another set to complete the coverage! I set up the second router as a wired access point in one corner of the house with the main router connected to four satellites. The fourth satellite is quite a distance away from the main router, but it is doing a great job of daisychaining from a satellite in between.

By contrast, the RBS750 satellite has a pair of networking ports. Neither have a USB connection for adding a hard drive as networked storage. When it came to sending a signal up a floor to a bedroom, the Orbi RBR752 (281.0Mbps) was well behind the RBR852 (670.1Mbps). The Linksys Velop AX4200 and Eero Pro 6 were in a virtual tie at 437.5Mbps and 430.9Mbps of throughput. Open up the Netgear Orbi 5G Tri-Band WiFi 6 Mesh System (NBK752) and you’ll see that it’s pretty much business as usual – this kit look similar to previous Wi-Fi 6 Orbi systems. This means that it has greater coverage, and I who live on three floors actually manage fine with the two-box-unit (the router and a node), where Nighthawk needed the three boxes (MK63) to provide good enough coverage throughout the house. Just make sure that both the router and the node are not covered. Not inside a closet, for example. The satellites in an Orbi AX4200 mesh network have two Ethernet connectors, for connection to gadgets that need cable. Photo: Netgear Ethernet Here are the results I saw, along with the speeds achieved by some other mesh systems in the same tests:

I myself have a lightning-fast fiber network with 1 Gbps, which feels redundant since I only get a tenth of that speed on the wireless connection. Therefore, I was reely looking forward to testing my first Wi-Fi 6 (AX) mesh network. This communicates in a more advanced way than older systems, in that several commands are sent and received simultaneously between routes and satellites (nodes). In addition to increasing the network speed of Wi-Fi 6 compatible gadgets, the home network will be more stable with older gadgets as well. Peace of mind guaranteed! In theory, at least. Nighthawk – with potential for improvement

Since this is an Orbi system, the control and range of features on offer is very similar to other products in the range. Initial configuration is through the Netgear Orbi app, which also delivers remote control of your system. In my tests, that proved to be true, with the RBK752 managing decent throughputs of 442.92Mbps at close range, 319.54Mbps on the first floor, and 284.78Mbps on the first floor. That’s just a little way behind the RBK852, although the bigger system still has plenty of streams left for other clients, whereas I was maxing out the bandwidth of the RBK752.There are different constellations of the Orbi AX4200, where I received the RBK752 for review. It consists of a main router and a node. There is also a larger system with two nodes, under the name RBK753, and you can also buy additional nodes. This mesh system is more powerful than the Nighthawk AX1800 system, and has six antennas inside each box – compared to four in the Nighthawk. You don’t get any USB ports for connecting external storage, although given how little this feature is used, I don’t think that it’s a huge loss.