News Netgear's Orbi 970 Wi-Fi 7 Router Boosts the Wireless Backhaul, Empties Wallets

[Admin]

Netgear promises extreme performance for the Orbi 970, but it will cost you.

Netgear's Orbi 970 Wi-Fi 7 Router Boosts the Wireless Backhaul, Empties Wallets : Read more

 

[A Stoner]

I bought their last generation one and I went through 4 sets and never once got them to work. The reason these things are so expensive is because it likely requires them to build dozens to get one that functions right.

One more thought, at the rate of change in the wireless router business, going from WiFi6 to WiFi6e and now to WiFi7 in such short order, it is not worth it to dump thousands of dollars on a router that will be outdated 6 months from now.

 

[spongiemaster]

One more thought, at the rate of change in the wireless router business, going from WiFi6 to WiFi6e and now to WiFi7 in such short order, it is not worth it to dump thousands of dollars on a router that will be outdated 6 months from now.

Agreed. We've also reached the point where wifi is fast enough that it will almost never be the bottleneck in your home, so one more reason to not need to upgrade.

 

[_Shatta_AD_]

Agreed. We've also reached the point where wifi is fast enough that it will almost never be the bottleneck in your home, so one more reason to not need to upgrade.

As a video producer and avid game developer, I respectfully disagree. Currently my entire network backhaul runs on a spd+ 40gbps effective bandwidth with fibers running everywhere and still, my NVMe NAS is barely able to keep up with the likes of my local NVMe drives (too bad you could only install so many in any given system). The max effective bandwidth of Wifi 7 is not even close to achieving what my spd+ network is able to achieve. I guess I’d have to wait a long few years for Wifi 8 or 9 to have a true wireless local network capable of current NVMe speed. You won’t understand until you find the need to edit 200 GB HDR 8k Dlog video files or uncompressed texture streams and shader mapping when testing game environments.

 

[gman68]

For that price, you can have an electrician pull ethernet wires wherever you need them in your home.

 

[spongiemaster]

As a video producer and avid game developer, I respectfully disagree. Currently my entire network backhaul runs on a spd+ 40gbps effective bandwidth with fibers running everywhere and still, my NVMe NAS is barely able to keep up with the likes of my local NVMe drives (too bad you could only install so many in any given system). The max effective bandwidth of Wifi 7 is not even close to achieving what my spd+ network is able to achieve. I guess I’d have to wait a long few years for Wifi 8 or 9 to have a true wireless local network capable of current NVMe speed. You won’t understand until you find the need to edit 200 GB HDR 8k Dlog video files or uncompressed texture streams and shader mapping when testing game environments.

There's always one. This is either professional work or a hobby gone crazy. Neither qualifies as a home user in the context I was using it.

 

[sitehostplus]

As a video producer and avid game developer, I respectfully disagree. Currently my entire network backhaul runs on a spd+ 40gbps effective bandwidth with fibers running everywhere and still, my NVMe NAS is barely able to keep up with the likes of my local NVMe drives (too bad you could only install so many in any given system). The max effective bandwidth of Wifi 7 is not even close to achieving what my spd+ network is able to achieve. I guess I’d have to wait a long few years for Wifi 8 or 9 to have a true wireless local network capable of current NVMe speed. You won’t understand until you find the need to edit 200 GB HDR 8k Dlog video files or uncompressed texture streams and shader mapping when testing game environments.

Ok, so you do professional work that requires the bandwidth wifi 7 provides.

I'm currently on ghetto internet (20mbps via spectrum), so investing in something like that unless Verizon FIOS comes to town would be a waste for me. The only really compelling reason for me to upgrade is if router security is improved.

When that happens, I'll move.