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Hardwired Satellites slower
Hi I have an RBR50 with two satellites. WMM, Beamforming and Mu-Mimo are all enabled and daisy chain disabled. My fiber connection is 300/300 Mbps.
I have my satellites wired with a TP-Link TL-SG105. My laptop and and phone have no problem hitting around the 300 Mbps when wirelessly connected to the router running a speedtest to the internet.
When I am connected to the hardwired satellite with these devices I am only getting around 93 Mbps.
When I remove the hardwire and the satellite is on 5GHz my devices will go up over 200 Mbps.
I assume the slowness is from the TP-Link TL-SG105.
I have seen that the GS-105/108 v4 are good to get. Also I see the v5 is out and not sure if it works as well.
Do I just order a gs-105 or 108 off amazon as it should be v4 or do I need to order from somewhere else. It seems to be cheaper on amazon. How can you tell if they are version 4.
Or should I order a D-Link DGS-105/108.
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
It looks like it was the tp link switch. I put an old router in its place with wifi off and speeds are where they should be.
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blamman wrote:I assume the slowness is from the TP-Link TL-SG105.
I suspect the issue is not the TP-Link switch. It is more likely that the ethernet wiring is limiting the connection to 100mb. Th e most frequent cause is incorrect termination of the RJ45 connections in the wall jacks.
One way to double check the results is to temporarily connect the satellites to the switch using ethernet patch cables, rather than in-house wiring. (Amazon sells 100ft. ethernet cables for under $20US).
Thank you. I will test out when I can. All of the cat 6 pass thru cables I crimped around 8 months ago and used a wire tester. I know when I hooked up my laptop onto one of the cables going to the satellite. it did negotiate 1 gig.
Test the RBS directly connected to the back of the RBR with out any switch in between. Speed should be to spec in this condiguration as well.
