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is the Orbi able to provide 300 mb over wifi ?
Last year I upgraded my system to D-Link dir- 890 plus powerline adapter I live in a 3 store town house so I used powerline adapter to place dir 890 on 2nd floor. My Fiber comes in back of first floo...
Yes it does 300Mbs just fine. I get 300Mbps on the 5ghz channel on both the satellite and router. Here is an area where where I couldn't get any signal on my old ASUS router, and even there it is ~300Mbs.
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I received my Orbi today and I must say I am impressed. I do seem to some having placement issues. I placed router on first floor back corner where my fiber connection comes in, then satalite on 2nd floor. This gave me 300 mb plus on first and 2nd flor but 100 mb on 3rd floor. It seems 5G is not going up to the next floor and I am connecting to 2.4 gig.
I decided to try putting the satalite on the 3rd floor thinking the signal would be to low to connect to the base but it connects. With satalite on 3rd floor I get 200 to 240 mb. The 2nd floor seems to bounce from 2.4 to 5 gig judging on speed test ranging from 100 mb to 220 mb. I made a few final adjustments to position hoping 2nd floor stays closer to 200. Strangly placing the satalite on 3rd floor gave me more even distabuted higher speeds but not reaching max, then on 2nd floor from above
as you see placement is very important and feel only way to get maximum speed would having an Orbi on every floor but overlapping could then become an issue. I have more then doubled and even tripled my speed in some areas from my previous set up I am impressed with the unit and will expertment with different placement options in the next few days, but today I tried many