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Orbi + Gigabit
I have gigabit speed through Xfinity and with my Orbi router hard-wired to the modem, doing speedtests using the orbi app, I'm only roughly getting 400-500mpbs. When I hard-wire a Microsoft Surface 4...
FURRYe38 wrote:
You need to ERASE the router back to factory and then set up from scratch. This time do not use the built in speed test, traffic meter or access controls on a 1Gb ISP service as these will disable the HW acceslleration needed for 1Gb ISP services. Then speed test with a wired LAN connected PC.
RegDawg wrote:
I have gigabit speed through Xfinity and with my Orbi router hard-wired to the modem, doing speedtests using the orbi app, I'm only roughly getting 400-500mpbs. When I hard-wire a Microsoft Surface 4 to the Orbi router, doing speedtests using speedtest.net or fast.com, I'm only roughly getting 300mbps. Is there something wrong with my set-up?
I set up from scratch but no where did I see where I could disable the speed test, access control, and traffic meter. Or was I supposed to do that? During the set-up I started out in the app then it lead me to the webpage to finish the set-up. Anyways I hard-wired my microsoft surface 4 to the orbi router and I'm only getting roughly 250mbps. Did I miss something?
RegDawg wrote:
FURRYe38 wrote:
You need to ERASE the router back to factory and then set up from scratch. This time do not use the built in speed test, traffic meter or access controls on a 1Gb ISP service as these will disable the HW acceslleration needed for 1Gb ISP services. Then speed test with a wired LAN connected PC.
RegDawg wrote:
I have gigabit speed through Xfinity and with my Orbi router hard-wired to the modem, doing speedtests using the orbi app, I'm only roughly getting 400-500mpbs. When I hard-wire a Microsoft Surface 4 to the Orbi router, doing speedtests using speedtest.net or fast.com, I'm only roughly getting 300mbps. Is there something wrong with my set-up?
I set up from scratch but no where did I see where I could disable the speed test, access control, and traffic meter. Or was I supposed to do that? During the set-up I started out in the app then it lead me to the webpage to finish the set-up. Anyways I hard-wired my microsoft surface 4 to the orbi router and I'm only getting roughly 250mbps. Did I miss something?
I have seen several people that keep saying this but I was curious to see if it was actually true. I connected my MBP using the USB-C gigabit ethernet adapter and a CAT7 cable directly to the Orbi router and the AT&T router. I ran a lot of speed tests within Chrome and the Speedtest.net Mac app and all the speed tests were nearly the same regardless of which device I was connected.
I did find the speed test in the iOS App 2.2.0.57 to be completely inaccurate. Speed tests using the Speedtest.net iOS app are consistantly where they should be for an 802.11AC 5GHz connection and similar to what I had with my Airport Extreme and iPhone X previously.