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Netgear Orbi is defective

In January, I bought a Netgear Orbi from Amazon for 1773 GBP(2025).  This is a fair old whack for a wifi system. The product is entirely defective. Its instructions, like many "products" currently, consist of installing their app and following the app's prompts.  I scanned the QR, installed the app, ran the app.  You can't proceed in the app without creating an account.  Again, this is currently considered acceptable and even normal.  So I entered my email address and make a password that conformed to their character class rules. I tried logging in.  I got the message "Email or password invalid".  I tried some more times. Then I thought perhaps I have to validate my email address.  So I went to my email, clicked on the link, and got the encouraging message " Congratulations! Your email has been successfully verified. You may close this page and log in to your account". But when I tried to log into the account from the app, it still didn't work....