It is indeed.....my point, perhaps not clear was that I wouldnt like a noob to go down this route and do al lthis simply becasue they had poorly sited units or another issue that doing this masks their real issue and they live with a substandard wifi product by configuration not design thats all.

In my situation I bought the Orbi on the back of the single SSID roaming and coverage it gave. My house is not huge but it is trcky with lot sof strange brick walls.

Previously u ised multiple SSID and repeaters etc and only when i went to the single SSID solution (prior to Orbi - which gave me the perfect excuse to get one) could I get perfect wifi calling over iOS around my home. I rely on wifi calling having poor mobile/cell reception. Previously I had separate SSID but under those circumstances the phone wil lcling on to its wifi for dear life until it cant any more then switch to the next one in its list.....with single SSID it will start the roaming onto another AP with same name as soon as the signal drops to -70dbM and make the decision on what to do...so location can be key...I actually had issues with a repeater which meant my calls sometimes dropped in this situation because I suspect that the phone was in a zone were it was roaming backwards and forwards between the two because it could never quite decide. moving the repeater solved the issue. In all cases the repeater location was reported as ideal.

This is just one example of issues solved by Orbi in my case. Netgear spent a lot of time making this work and it works for a lot of people but obviously not all.....then in my opinion I would say its down to either your clients or your location of the Orbi's themselves.

Of course we all get to a point where life really must go on and we cant be bothered to mess around with something that is meant to make life easier, not more difficult :-)

I'm glad it works and you have a solution.....if ever you get bored, or even after a few firmware updates it could be worth trying again!

Out of personal interest what sort of devices did you have that were dropping all the time?