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Apple products are slow
Many times during the day, my iPhone and iPad have very slow wifi, around 5 mb or less. If I toggle the wifi on and off, the both then receive at the full speed of 100MB. Happens after I reboot O...
It might be that your iOS device isn't connected to the best device (i.e. Router vs Sat). Lets say the wireless signal of your Sat and Router overlap, if your iOS device was connected to the Sat and you walk to the main Orbi Router, the iOS device might stay connected to the Sat, resulting in slower speeds. By shutting on/off the wifi, you will force it to reconnect to best AP.
Before you shut/unshut the wifi, go to the device listing on the Router and Sat and see where your device is connected (and what band, i.e. 2.4G or 5G) when it gets the bad speedtest. Then when you shut/unshut the wireless and it gets a good speed test, look at whwere it is connected and what speed, see if things have changed.
Thanks. But what if in fact that is what is happening. What is the solution?
For now you can try turning off beamforming and perhaps try 1.4.0.16 fw with factory reset and see if that helps, it helped me still unstable but not as annoying... Again this is just some temporary suggestions until next Firmware release hopefully soon
Thank you again. Too bad ... I thought this very high priced solution would be the answer to my problems. May go back to the Airport Extreme for now ...
