NETGEAR Orbi 770 Series Mesh WiFi 7 System (RBE773) Review

1. Introduction2. NETGEAR Orbi 770 Series Mesh WiFi 7 System (RBE773)3. Administration Interface4. Performance Analysis5. Closing Thoughts6. View All Pages

NETGEAR's Orbi packaging is always very detailed about what can be found inside and what its capabilities are.

Aside from the three units, there are three power cables with a choice of UK or European power connectors, plus a ribbon Ethernet cable.

 

Externally, all three units look exactly the same from the front. These are smaller units than the Orbi 970 Series, and rather sleek. They will be unobtrusive dotted around your house.

There is a slight difference when you look around the back of the units. The Router has a WAN port (in yellow) plus three LAN ports, all of which operate at up to 2.5Gbit Ethernet speed. There's a recessed reset button and a sync button for setting up the mesh. The Satellites have these too, plus just a pair of 2.5Gbit Ethernet LAN ports.

Some previous Orbis have had a few more ports on the back, including USB, but overall these are attractive and compact units that won't spoil the look of your home decor.

Acer Swift 14 AI WiFi 7 Laptop

For testing the latest WiFi 7 wireless networking, Acer sent us its Swift 14 AI notebook, based around a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus Oryon X1P-64-100 CPU. This is a ten-core processor running at up to 3.4GHz across all cores, although without a single-core boost frequency (you need the X1P-66-100 for that). Our sample was supplied with 16GB of LPDDR5x memory and a 1TB SSD. Although this is an ARM-based laptop, it can still run Windows 11 and our standard WiFi testing software, iPerf3. It's a solid choice for road warriors who need to spend days away from a reliable power source, thanks to a 26-hour battery life.

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