Hardwired Satellites slower

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. 

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blamman wrote:

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.

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This is an area where Netgear provides tools on the router that are not available on satellites.  On the Orbi web interface, Advanced Tab home page, the blue box "Show Statistics" reports the WAN, LAN, and WiFi connection rates.  1000M/Full indicates a gigabit connection. 100M/Full reports Fast Ethernet.  For example, if the router is connected to a gigabit switch on LAN port 1 and it reports 1000M/Full, then that one link (router to switch) is running at gigabit.  Alas, there is not a similar report from the satellite.  All it takes is one link in the chain failing to negotiate a gigabit link and bandwidth on the entire pathway is limited to that smaller value.  (We may have an 8 lane freeway in Pasadena and another 8 lane freeway in Oakland, but if the highway drops to two lanes out in the country, the total throughput will be two lane.)

Without a report from the satellite, there are two ways to check the cable pathway between router and satellite:

• Move the satellite (temporarily) to the router and connect them with a good patch cable
  The link should report 1000M/Full.
• Bypass the entire cable pathway with a good (long) patch cable.
  If this also tests 1000M/Full, then something is wrong with the pathway.

Cable testers affordable to consumers can verify that the copper wires are physically connected, but not that the terminations and physical cable meet specifications.  When we had an entire campus wired, the installers had to submit reports showing that each cable passed the requirements (and also the physical length of each cable).  Testers that can do this are many hundreds (or thousands) of dollars.  (See Fluke, for example: https://www.fluke.com/en-us/products/network-cable-testers/copper )