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New Orbi customer and gigabit
I recently (Tuesday, it's now Thursday) purchased an Orbi RBK50 to replace my Asus RT-ac87R/U router to provide better coverage in my townhome and becasue the asus router seemed to be struggling with...
I'm running 2.1.2.18 with wireless backhaul and here are my iperf3 speeds
MacbookAir wirelessly connected to satellite - 480Mbps
Zidoo X9S Android Media player connected via wire to satellite - 835Mbps
And what are the wired speeds connected to the router?
Some wireless devices don't support upwards of 900Mb +- speeds. There limited by there HW and design. You'll need to check with the Mfrs of these devices to see what max supported wireless speeds they can do.
Always test with ethernet cable connections for most accurate speed testing. If your getting near 900Mb on wired at the router, then you good there.
sorry, I guess I should have been clearer.
I do the majority of my testing through speedtest.net in chrome on a gigabit wired windows box to achieve the higher 800+ mbit results
when I use the web gui from orbilogin.com to do the QoS speedtest that results in about 400mbit (although since downgrading it tries and errors out eventually saying it's unable to determine speed).
when I upgraded the orbi to the 2.1.3.4 (or whatever it is) the speedtest.net results avg'd in the 740s.
another question, whats the actual current public firmware? I went to the main downloads page and it lists a bunch of different ones, all out of order and the autoupgrade says i'm on the current, but there's 2.1.3.4 (beta if I'm understanding the forums correctly), 2.1.2.18, 2.0.1.4 (current;y installed), and 2.1.1.16. There's other versions listed, but these looked to be the highest in their respective series.
