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NETGEAR qualifies its coverage figure and hides the PoE class

Three NETGEAR units

A router-and-two-satellites Wi-Fi 7 system, an eight-socket unmanaged switch and an eight-socket managed powered switch.

The rare habit

The mesh listing states its coverage figure and then names the three things that change it, which is more than the rest of that family does with a headline number. The unmanaged switch names the cable grades its sockets expect and puts a physical power switch on the case, so restarting it does not mean pulling a plug out of a wall.

The line an installer reads first

The powered switch calls its sockets PoE+ and prints no IEEE class, while publishing a 62 W shared budget and per-socket power control. Class is what decides whether a camera or a telephone powers up at all. The mesh system, for its part, leaves its own sockets uncounted on a system sold for a large house.

Every NETGEAR unit reviewed here

Every price named in a summary was read on the date that review carries. What a shop asks today is shown beside the product, and it moves.