Quick background:

I have 1 RBR-50 in living room and 2 RBS-50 in 2 guest rooms. All are in latest firmware.

Time Capsule is wired to one RBS-50.

I have 3 MacBook, wireless only. MacBookPro (late 2013) connects to the same RBS-50 which Time Capsule connects to. MacBook (2015) conencts to RBR-50, MacBookPro (2018, touch bar) connects to another RBS-50. All are backed up to Time Capsule, daily backup in different time.

I noticed the MacBookPro (2018) is backing up extremely slow compared to the other 2 laptops, it takes 20 mins to complete daily incremenent backup or 10 hours after an OS upgrade, while the other 2 laptops take only 5 mins for daily incremenent backup and 20-30 mins after an OS upgrade. When it is backing up, in Activity Monitor / Network, I noticed its network send/receive speed is also much slower than the other two, (300KB/s vs 28MB/s)

Internet speed on this MacBookPro looks pretty good ie 500Mbps on speedtest.net.

Is it because of number of hops when it tries to reach Time Capsule?

MacBookPro -> RBS-50-1 -> RBR-50 -> RBS-50-2 -> Time Capsule

While for the other two:

MacBook -> RBR-50 -> RBS-50-2 -> Time Capsule

MacBookPro -> RBS-50-2 -> Time Capsule

Adding one extra hop will cause so many latency? Or something wrong in the communication between 2 Orbi Satelliates?

I have disabled daisy chain, will it help?

Thanks

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