Netgear Orbi RBK852

The Orbi RBK852 delivers barnstorming coverage… and not muchelse

SCORE PRICE £583 (£700 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/318net3 WI-FI 5 DOWNLOADS WI-FI 6 DOWNLOADS We’ve already sung the praises of the Orbi RBK752 mesh kit (see p83); the RBK852 is all of that and more. If you go by the datasheet alone, the only difference appears to be that the radios are upgraded from 2x2 MU-MIMO to 4x4, but we suspect that Netgear has also made some tweaks to the transmission power or the antenna design. We say that because, while the RBK752 is a very capable mesh system, the Orbi RBK852 is conspicuously faster. Across our Wi-Fi 6 tests it bested the RBK752 in every location, by a sizeable margin of 6.8MB/sec on average. Even in the worst-served parts of the house, data rates never fell below 43.5MB/sec – which is a phenomenal level of…

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