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Netgear’s new Wi-Fi 7 Orbi mesh system is a solid bump with plenty of ports

It’s fancy and expensive, and probably very fast.

It’s pricey like the others, but at $1,299.99 for a three-pack, it’s a full thousand dollars cheaper than the next kit up, the quad-band Orbi 970. The Orbi 870 also supports 320MHz channel bandwidth, which will have the most obvious benefits if you like watching download progress bars as much as I do (probably an unhealthy amount). And owners could benefit indirectly since the routers will communicate among themselves with all the stability, responsiveness, and throughput gains of Wi-Fi 7.

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