App/Company Nickels and Dimes – NETGEAR Orbi - WiFi System App Review

The Orbi devices are fantastic and work amazing but this is the App Store and a review for the app. It is complete junk. The interface is god awful, clunky, slow as heck. Setup is long and drawn out. Then they nickel and dime for: security features, product support, and crazy enough parental controls (all separate purchases btw). What Wi-Fi app these days doesn’t allow me to pause a device, I have to pay $70 per year to do that, cmon Netgear. You honestly can’t really do much with this app unless your paying all the yearly additional costs. So the app is kinda pointless unless your always restarting or changing you Wi-Fi password. The Eero app is what this app should strive to be. Unfortunately those routers didn’t work well in my house so I’m stuck with Orbi as they really are the best. I hope they take everyone’s feedback, stop charging for parental controls, and really improve the app.
Review by tacogy3 on NETGEAR Orbi - WiFi System App.