NETGEAR has unveiled Orbi home mesh WiFi add-on satellite with built-in smart speaker and Amazon Alexa, so in addition to expanding your home WiFi coverage, it delivers more features. Like the idea? Let’s have a look.
The Orbi is a well-designed and multi-functional home mesh WiFi add-on that measures 7.7 x 9 x 7.7 inches and weighs 6.03 pounds. As shown in the images, the add-on has a similar appearance design with Orbi tri-band home mesh WiFi system, but the gray fabric exterior delivers more elegant aesthetics to match with various interior styles, and the compact design allows you to easily deploy it anywhere in your house.
The add-on satellite works with the Orbi mesh home WiFi system, delivering additional WiFi coverage up to 2000 sq. ft. Meanwhile, it also serves as a wireless home speaker with a 3.5″ front-facing woofer and a 1″ tweeter from Harman Kardon in order to produce high-quality, room-filling audio, and you can enjoy your favorite music from popular music streaming services such as Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora and more. Moreover, the Orbi Voice Satellite also features built-in Amazon Alexa so that you can ask it to play music, set alarms, control other Alexa smart home devices, check weather traffic and more. In addition, smart parental controls allow it to deliver safe Internet time for your kids.
The Orbi home mesh WiFi add-on satellite is priced at $299.99 USD. If you’re interested, jump to the product page for its more details.