I currently have a three-piece Orbi 850 series setup. Has about 25-30 devices between IoT and others spread out over >3k sqft on a 500/20 line. No fiber available yet.
I have no love for Netgear, but the radio performance and dedicated wireless backhaul to the router is great.
I still also physically have a UniFi Dream Machine (WiFi 5), a Dream Router (WiFi 6), and the wireless power plug extenders in both WiFi 5 and WiFi 6 flavors. I've been toying with the idea of swapping back over to the UDM or UDR, with extenders x2, as I tend to prefer UniFi hardware, but I don't know that I'm actually solving any problem by doing that.
Functionally, other than rare AirPlay issues to an AV receiver which I'm still not sure are caused by the satellites/router versus the receiver, I don't really have any issues. I just prefer UniFi equipment and software.
I'd also be losing out on that dedicated backhaul, and when I last looked at signal strengths at the more distant devices with the Netgear equipment versus UniFi's, I found the former to have significantly better RSSIs. I haven't used the UniFi gear in something like 1-1.5 years and understand there may have been some improvements.
I haven't run Ethernet for hardwired APs on property. Powerline networking isn't a great choice. Thought about MoCA, but with so much gear hanging around and more capacity than demand, I'd like to avoid buying more.
All that being said, is there some reason perhaps I'm not thinking of that would support switching over to UniFi despite the reduced radio performance?
I have no love for Netgear, but the radio performance and dedicated wireless backhaul to the router is great.
I still also physically have a UniFi Dream Machine (WiFi 5), a Dream Router (WiFi 6), and the wireless power plug extenders in both WiFi 5 and WiFi 6 flavors. I've been toying with the idea of swapping back over to the UDM or UDR, with extenders x2, as I tend to prefer UniFi hardware, but I don't know that I'm actually solving any problem by doing that.
Functionally, other than rare AirPlay issues to an AV receiver which I'm still not sure are caused by the satellites/router versus the receiver, I don't really have any issues. I just prefer UniFi equipment and software.
I'd also be losing out on that dedicated backhaul, and when I last looked at signal strengths at the more distant devices with the Netgear equipment versus UniFi's, I found the former to have significantly better RSSIs. I haven't used the UniFi gear in something like 1-1.5 years and understand there may have been some improvements.
I haven't run Ethernet for hardwired APs on property. Powerline networking isn't a great choice. Thought about MoCA, but with so much gear hanging around and more capacity than demand, I'd like to avoid buying more.
All that being said, is there some reason perhaps I'm not thinking of that would support switching over to UniFi despite the reduced radio performance?