NETGEAR Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Mini Mesh Router (SXR30) for Business or Home | VLAN, QoS | Coverage up to 2,000 sq. ft., 40 Devices | AX1800 802.11 AX (up to 1.8Gbps)

The Orbi Pro SXR30 is one of the few routers or access points meant primarily for home use that has fully-usable, robust 802.1Q VLANs, with VLAN tags and trunking capability. In fact, it’s a fully managed ethernet switch combined with router and wireless access point capabilities. I have not used the router capability of this unit. I have my own router running OPNsense and a central managed switch with three VLANs for my house. I wanted a wireless access point in my family/media room to connect to a trunk line running back to the managed switch and that is capable of broadcasting three wireless networks each with separate SSIDs, one for each VLAN. As a bonus, I wanted the wireless access point to have some ethernet ports that would allow me to connect my television and VOIP line via ethernet and eliminate the need for a satellite switch. This unit fulfills all of those criteria, and I’m actually not sure whether there is any other desktop wireless access point that does so other than this unit and probably the other Orbi Pro models, such as the SXR80. That being said, because of a quirk in the management interface, it took me a couple of days to figure out how to set up and configure this unit. In particular, I have learned through experimentation that the SXR30 cannot be managed over a VLAN that uses tagged packets, which is unusual for a managed switch or other device that uses 802.1Q VLANs. So, the only way I found to get this unit working with a trunk line from the main switch was to set up the trunk line on the switch with a mix of tagged and untagged packets—in particular, untagged packets for whichever VLAN will be used to manage the Orbi SXR30, and tagged packets for every other VLAN. The management VLAN will then remain untagged on the SXR30, even if it’s tagged elsewhere on your network, and when setting up the wireless network for the management VLAN, a “VLAN Profile” should not be used (leave it as the default profile). The other wireless networks, besides the one you’re using for management, can be set up with a VLAN profile. Other than that quirk, which at least as far as I’m aware is not documented, this unit is amazing and is exactly what I wanted. It allowed me to replace four devices—a satellite managed switch and three wireless access points—with this one device, thereby decluttering my family/media room and cutting back on power consumption.

I bough this router and took too long to install because due to illness and work, but today I finally installed. My laptop connects and works beautifully but none of our apple devices (iphone, ipad)!! Installing orbi app, insight netgear app and nothing. My iphone doesnt even scan the code in the orbi! We tried everything but it does t woem and now I cant return. I am soooo upset, pleaE be aware od rhis befor buying.. in the meantime, using my old orbi (manufacfure stopped making but they work better than the new ones!)

EZ Setup Works great no issues. My RBK50 finally died great replacement. All the other mesh replacements are way 2 expensive. I highly recommend this. Great price for what you get.

I had an Orbi network for about 2 years that worked great. Once problems started developing is when everything changed. Troubleshooting anything on the network is nearly impossible. You don't know if you have a problem with the router, a satellite, or something else and the user interface doesn't help. I ended up purchasing a new router and cannot get the satellites to connect. I've used Netgear for nearly 10 years and unfortunately the quality doesn't seem to be there any more.

Easy to set up and works well within my house.

Great upgrade for our house.

It was time to retire my ancient Netgear router and upgrade to a business class one. The same bug where items do not populate in the Connected Devices field exists in this version. I would have hoped that this is something they'd have sorted in the intervening time -- but a quick google search reveals that I'm not alone. Ironically, among the devices that the router wouldn't populate are Netgear switches. Hopping on the Netgear Discover application and the switches show up fine, so it's not an actual issue. Ultimately, my use case requires being able to assign and maintain a few static IPs on the network. This can't handle even displaying what is or isn't correctly connected. Not worth messing around when there are dollars on the line. Garbage, and waste of a perfectly good morning.

I had two other people try to troubled it and Just could not get it to set up correctly. I wish it would have worked the way we planned but do to a family emergency and then death I am out of time to return it.