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ChristineT
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 15, 2018

Looking for a select group of Orbi Community members that are interested in beta testing firmware

Greetings Orbi Community,   We are looking for a select group of Orbi Community members that are interested in beta testing current and upcoming Orbi firmware to help broaden our scope of use cas...
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mmcnamara
Aspirant
Sep 25, 2018
I’d like to participate in the Orbi Beta Firmware Community. I have Gigabit internet and have been frustrated with the inconsistent bandwidth that I’ve seen when hardwired into a satellite connected via Ethernet backhaul. At times I have seen 600+ MB/s, which is fairly reasonable given inherit losses; however, on many occasions I have noticed that I am being hard capped at 100 MB/s (for wired connections) even though I can pull 200+ MB/s on mobile devices connected to the same satellite. It doesn’t compute for me to see higher satellite bandwidth for mobile connections vs hard-wired connections. Seems like a bug that could/should be addressed. Happy to provide diagnostic logs, etc.
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    Dawgneck
    Aspirant
    Sep 25, 2018

    I’d like to participate in the Orbi Beta Firmware Community

    • baraider's avatar
      baraider
      Aspirant
      Sep 25, 2018

      I like to participate in this as well. I got the RBK53 package from Costco with the latest firmware and still haven't got it to set up the way I like.