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Centurylink Fiber and RBK50
Hello all, let me start by stating that I have read tons of forums on this and am still stuck. I have CL Fiber with the C4000XG modem from CL, and just recently bought the RBK50 pack. Breakdown ...
Are speed testing with a wired PC or wireless device?
You'll need to ask your ISP about the IPoE protocol if that something that can be used on external routers...
Seems like the modem maybe trottling the Orbi data flow...
Yes wired, as stated in OP. ISP wont provide anything regarding IPOE, they said contact netgear, but did say I had to use IPOE bc it's my ISP protocol, i need to know how to use IPOE via the orbi. I have tried #3, same results. I think the CL device is actually just a router... Another note, today I placed Orbi in AP mode, and wifi is significantly worse than when in router mode and CL router radios disabled. Im at a loss. This is my 3rd mesh system, and it seems to be the best as far as coverage and speed, but thats about it.
Yes, the CL device is just a router. Yes, the router needs to do IPOE or PPOE or something like that - you need to be able to "log in". Interesting, I get fairly good results with the Orbi in AP mode. No, I don't get gigabit speeds wireless but didn't expect to. Wired connected to the RBR50, I get 925 or so symetric
creed0330 wrote:Yes wired, as stated in OP. ISP wont provide anything regarding IPOE, they said contact netgear, but did say I had to use IPOE bc it's my ISP protocol, i need to know how to use IPOE via the orbi. I have tried #3, same results. I think the CL device is actually just a router... Another note, today I placed Orbi in AP mode, and wifi is significantly worse than when in router mode and CL router radios disabled. Im at a loss. This is my 3rd mesh system, and it seems to be the best as far as coverage and speed, but thats about it.
Yea, I dont expext gig speeds via wifi, but I would like to know how to configure my orbi for IPOE.
creed0330 wrote:Yea, I dont expext gig speeds via wifi, but I would like to know how to configure my orbi for IPOE.
Do some searches. I have CL gigabit fiber but it uses PPPOE instead. As best I can tell, with IPOE, yours should either just work or you have to set vlan tagging up using 201 as the tag. Have a look at: https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/gxtg6h/bypassing_cl_fiber_modem_something_seems_off/ although I don't think it fully discusses your issue. I found that when I tried to take the CL router out of the system, that the orbi wasn't able to keep up doing routing, wifi and NAT. Even wired, I couldn't get close to gigabit speeds. The newer Orbi's might but I don't really know. You can do some more searching but I found a lot of posts that suggested that the orbi just isn't a great, fully featured router and that the CL eq is better at that - just the wifi perf isn't great. So let the CL box do the routing and the orbi do the wifi in AP mode. I'm curious what your wired speeds look like once you do get it working tho... if...