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Arjan1000's avatar
Arjan1000
Guide
Sep 26, 2017

Has Netgear fixed the iOS and macOS issues?

I have had the Netgear Orbi at the beginning of this year. On that moment the product suffered from a lot of disconnects for ios and mac-os devices. In potential it's a great product but i am curious if I could buy this product again because the apple related issues are gone?

 

Any thoughts?

Troubleshooting

5 Replies

  • nirvana's avatar
    nirvana
    Initiate
    Sep 26, 2017

    I haven't had disconnect issues (on any of the firmware) but currently, the bandwidth on the iPhones is horrible relative to computers. The speed test on laptops (wireless) and a Linux desktop (wired) get 100Mbps+ but the iPhone 6 gets maybe 10-20Mbps. Granted that is still fine for most uses, but the 2.0.0.74 firmware did show a lower speed for the iPhone.

    • aaz's avatar
      aaz
      Virtuoso
      Sep 27, 2017

      Not sure why your speed is so slow on iPhone 6 - I am testing right now on iPhone 6 and it's giving me 154/16.8 which actually exceeds my cable internet speed contract. You may want to select a different server to test with on the speedtest.net app.

      • DavePDX's avatar
        DavePDX
        Aspirant
        Sep 27, 2017

        Having just updated to firmware 2.x, I was quite surprised to see truly dismal speeds on my iPhone 7.  I have 1 Gb fiber, and on my wired devices have a solid 940 Mbps both directions.  On my MBP retina, I routinely get 480 wirelessly.  However, on the iPhone 7, I was only getting about 25 or 30, even after rebooting the phone. I didn't matter how close I was to the main Orbi or Satellite.  Finally, I tried rebooting the main Orbi, and my speed on the iPhone 7 topped out at an amazing 542 Mbps!

         

        I don't understand why my other devices were unaffected nor why the previous reboot didn't have this affect, but was glad to solve the problem.  Maybe worth a try.

  • st_shaw's avatar
    st_shaw
    Master
    Sep 26, 2017

    No issues for nine months with iOS and MacOS devices.  I recently measured 470 Mbps average data throughput on my iPhone 7+ as well.  I haven’t measured throughput on the .74 firmware yet. 

  • Mrgoodall's avatar
    Mrgoodall
    Star
    Sep 26, 2017

    I've had mine for since February or so, and have had no ios/MacOs specific issues. And it simply blazes. Im running the latest firmware with no issues.