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Can't Get Close to Gigabit via WiFi
I recently, with great help from Chuck_M and others here, reset and rebuilt my Orbi network. Content that all was well again at home, I allowed myself to be talked into trying Xfinity's Gigabit serv...
Agree with FURRYe38 . The max you're probably going to get out of this is that 400-550mbps. Thats under optimal conditions. Its a issue of the wireless ac spec and throughput on your individual devices. Smallnetbuilder did a great review that shows speeds based upon attenuation. It also ranks Orbi in comparission to other mesh systems. You're getting great speeds from the wifi.
One thing to check with your gigabit testing is try another product and several websites. the 2 sites I like to use are:
speedtest.xfinity.com
speedtest.googlefiber.net
Also see if you can find another computer to test with. Some of the older products I've tested with have tested the cpu a bit when testing gigabit speeds. Its always good to have more than one sample to test with.
plemans wrote:
Agree with FURRYe38 . The max you're probably going to get out of this is that 400-550mbps. Thats under optimal conditions. Its a issue of the wireless ac spec and throughput on your individual devices. Smallnetbuilder did a great review that shows speeds based upon attenuation. It also ranks Orbi in comparission to other mesh systems. You're getting great speeds from the wifi.
Thanks for that info, and the link, which I'll read. As I said in reply to FURRYe38's helpful post, if the real world max is going to be 400-550 mbps, I'm minded to just go back to the 150 I'd been paying for, which was delivering that or more on my WiFi devices all over the house.
One thing to check with your gigabit testing is try another product and several websites. the 2 sites I like to use are:
speedtest.xfinity.com
speedtest.googlefiber.net
Also see if you can find another computer to test with. Some of the older products I've tested with have tested the cpu a bit when testing gigabit speeds. Its always good to have more than one sample to test with. This is a fair point, but maddening because my main machine is a MacBook Pro from mid-2018, and not only is there no ethernet jack, to get one will require not one, but two, dongles. One is a Thunderbird 2-Ethernet dongle. That won't work on the latest MBPs, though, so I also need a Thunderbird 2-Thunderbird 3 dongle, or so I'm told. I'm not willing to do that unless absolutely necessary, just on principle! :smileyhappy:
Thanks again for the help.