🛒Netgear Orbi 870 Series Preview: Top-Tier Wi-Fi 7 Meets Entry-Level Multi-Gig Hardware
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Today, at CES 2025, Netgear announced the availability of its third Wi-Fi 7 Orbi set, the Orbi 870 series. The …
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Netgear Nighthawk RS200 Review (vs. Asus RT-BE86U): A Solid Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router
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The Nighthawk RS200, first announced late last month, is the odd one out in Netgear’s Wi-Fi 7 standalone router lineup. …
Netgear RBE773 Orbi 770 Series Review: A Straightforward, Well-Performing, Yet Imperfect Wi-Fi 7 Mesh
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The Orbi 770 series, first announced in June, is Netgear’s second major Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, and it’s totally different …
Netgear M7 Pro Mobile Hotspot Quick Take: 5G Meets Wi-Fi 7
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Today, Netgear announced the availability of its latest mobile hotspot, the Nighthawk M7 Pro (model MR7400). It’s not the company’s …
Netgear Nighthawk RS300 Review (vs. TP-Link Archer BE550): A Faster Mid-tier Wi-Fi 7 Variant for a Price
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The Nighthawk RS300, first released last month, is Netgear’s 2nd Wi-Fi 7 standalone router and is meant to be inferior …
Netgear WBE750: A $700 Top-tier Modern Wi-Fi 7 Access Point with 1-Year Trial of Insight Cloud Management
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Today, Netgear announced its first Wi-Fi 7 standard AP, the WBE750 Insight Manageable tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Access Point. In a …
Nighthawk RS700S Review (vs. Asus RT-BE96U): A Top-Performance Wi-Fi 7 Contender
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It took me a while to evaluate the Netgear Nighthawk RS700S BE19000 Wi-Fi 7 router. The router’s actual model is …
Netgear RBE973S Orbi 970 Series Review (vs. TP-Link Deco BE85): A Tiring Mixed Bag of Complicated Wi-Fi, Real Multi-Gigabit, and a Major Sticker Shock
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First available in late September 2023, the Orbi 970 Series, Netgear’s first Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, proved complicated to test. …
Netgear M6 Pro Hotspot Router Review: Versatile yet Ridiculously Overpriced
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I have been quite excited about Netgear’s latest Nighthawk M6 Pro 5G Wi-Fi 6E Hotspot Router (model MR6550) since its …
Netgear M6 Pro Mobile Hotspot: Potentially an Excellent Travel Router
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Updated: The in-depth review of the M6 Pro is available here. For quite some time, I’ve gotten requests to review …
Netgear A8000 Review: A Simple and Effective USB Wi-Fi 6/6E Upgrade
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The Netgear A8000 Nighthawk AXE3000 Wi-Fi 6E USB 3.0 Adapter is a much-anticipated upgrade for many. It quickly adds Wi-Fi …
Netgear Orbi RBK860 Review (vs. RBK850): Much Hype, Little Wi-Fi Substance
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The Orbi RBK860 series—first unveiled on October 11, 2022, as a 3-pack model RBK863S—is the latest member of Netgear’s popular …
Netgear Orbi RBRE960 Standalone Router Review: Overpriced and Handicapped
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In the Orbi RBKE963 review, I predicted that it was just a matter of time before the router unit of …
Netgear MS108UP Review (vs. TRENDnet TPE-TG350): A Solid 8-port 2.5Gbps PoE++ Switch with Oddities
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If you’ve been wondering, and maybe even annoyed, that Netgear’s Wi-Fi 6 and 6E access points generally don’t include a …
