Netgear Orbi Quad-band WiFi 6E RBKE963

PRICE £1,250 (£1,500 inc VAT) from netgear.co.uk

Netgear’s Orbi Wi-Fi mesh systems have taken home numerous PC Pro awards thanks to their ease of use, wide coverage and excellent performance. They tend to be pricey, though, and this new model pushes the boat out further than ever with a shocking price of £1,500 for three stations.

Then again, the RBKE963 is no ordinary mesh. It’s the first wireless system we’ve seen to support Wi-Fi 6E – a rapidly encroaching standard that opens up a whole new set of radio frequencies in the 6GHz band for home and office use.

This is a big deal, because the 5GHz band has always been cramped. Its standard frequency range is only broad enough to accommodate two adjacent networks using the wide 80MHz channel width, or a single 160MHz one – so it’s hard to avoid overlapping with other