Today at CES, Netgear announced a new Wi-Fi 7 mesh router that neatly slots between its existing Orbi 770 and Orbi 970 product lines. As you might have already surmised, the new mesh system is conveniently called the Orbi 870.
As the middle child in Netgear’s mesh router lineup, the Orbi 870 takes some of the best features of its siblings below and above its position in the family. Like the Orbi 770, the Orbi 870 is a tri-band system, offering one 2.4 GHz band, one 5 GHz band, and one 6 GHz band. However, the Orbi 870 offers four streams instead of two at 5 GHz and 6 GHz, doubling throughput over the Orbi 770 on those bands.
