The First Quad-Band WiFi 6E Mesh Router Is Here, and It'll Cost You $1,500 - Gizmodo

Mesh wifi routers have become a bonafide necessity for connecting numerous devices to the internet, especially as many of us still work from home.

Netgear just announced its first quad-band WiFi 6E-compatible mesh router, the Orbi Quad-band Mesh WiFi 6E System AXE11000, or RBKE960 Series.

The quad-band mesh wifi system is billed as a next-generation fix for your cramped home network.

The Orbi quad-band router claims it offers more than double the bandwidth, helped in part by its 6GHz band.

Tri-band routers typically use that second 5 GHz band as backhaul for passing data back and forth between devices without interrupting bandwidth—kind of like taking the side road home that runs alongside the freeway.

Rather than a mesh product that needs to dedicate wireless bandwidth for backhaul, I’d rather get a WAP that can create its own 6ghz network and use my wired ethernet for backhaul to my router.