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Review on Netgear Nighthawk Whole System 3 Pack by Brandon Frogge

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Easy Setup - Intermittent problems assigning an IP address to DHCP devices.

There are some reviews that criticize this WiFi 6 mesh system as "not as efficient as other more expensive WiFi 6 mesh systems". a little more expensive, they are 2-3 times more expensive, and maybe for your purposes just a little more functionality. In any case, it wasn't any harder to set up than a regular router, the extra units just plug in and work, and: bonus, they have a wired port that lets you connect wired devices that don't have WiFi access, such as laptops as an IP high-resolution camera. Error, this happened much more often right after installing the new mesh router system - the phone sees a strong WiFi signal and tries to connect, but it does not get an IP address from either the main network or the guest network. Restarting the phone doesn't help, restarting the router does. After updating the firmware of the router, this happens a little less often, but still once a week. If it weren't for this one issue I would give our new router system a five star rating, it's excellent value for money and 100% better than the one it replaced. Whatever it is, it's quite annoying having to reboot the router from time to time to keep my phones and my wife's phones connected to the wifi. Maybe one day another firmware update will come and fix this before the router goes into unsupported status.

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