Review of Netgear Orbi RBKE963 Quad-Band Wi-Fi 6E Mesh
Netgear’s Orbi RBKE963 is an incredible mesh system with huge coverage and stellar speeds. This mesh kit manages to be a jack of all trades thanks to its quad-band WiFi 6e connection, which makes real-world speeds possible with WiFi 6 alone. The spec sheet looks a lot like Netgear’s previous-generation flagship with the 6GHz band, but in practice, the speed increase is much more dramatic than the specifications suggest. The RBR960 router and RBS960 satellites have received substantial hardware upgrades over the previous generation, including an upgrade to 10Gb Ethernet on the router and 2.5Gb Ethernet for the LAN. The satellites are also upgraded with a 2.5Gbps port which can also be used for mesh connections. With the AXE11000 an upgrade to WiFi 6, it’s one of the fastest home WiFi solutions money can buy. The Orbi RBKE963’s nodes also look better than previous generations with a slightly different design, which eliminated the older unit’s gray plastic frame for a design with a ...