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Intermittent internet connectivity outage with Orbi?
Firstly, while I do have a satellite also, this issue has nothing to do with that. No Wifi is involved here. The PC is wired directly to the Orbi. We upgraded out Xfinity service to 1gigabit/45m...
So, I tried one last alternative without contacting customer support directly. I frankly don't have the time to stay on the line forever for something that should already work.
I switched the Orbi from router to access point mode. I then uploaded a 500MB file with no speed degradation.
Obviously I'm giving up a few things the Orbi router offers such as Parental Controls but for now I'll have to live with my $400 base and satellite acting only as access points.
I'm still open for alternative suggestions if anyone has any.
Thanks.
This may (or maybe not!) be my final message related to this. The YouTube speed slowdown started occurring again. The files being uploaded were larger (~20GB). After a good amount of research, it seems that my browser might have been the culprit. Evidently, Chrome has some type of throttling issue when uploading large files. It basically tries to push the file as fast as it can. This caused the Xfinity router to bog down (remember this is a different router than the original one due to the bandwidth upgrade).
I fired up Microsoft Edge and uploaded the files with no issue at all. Evidently, you can also bring up the Chrome dev tools (F12) and create a new throttling profile for just YouTube. Doing all of this seemed like overkill so I chose the Edge route. I don't know if Firefox has the same issue but I did read a throttling plugin was available for it.
Hope this helps someone!