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Petefisch
Jul 11, 2019Follower
Orbi device bandwidth
Our neighbour uses out network as she only visits the house a few months per year and the previous owner of our house allowed her free access. While this does annoy me I don’t want to upset her but...
michaelkenward
Jul 12, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Petefisch wrote:
We have put her on a guest network so we can turn it off when we notice we are impacted but just want to control it.
What is it on your network that gets bogged down?
You don't have many options and your 15 Mbps speed is not great.
Orbi routers do not support the sort of QoS that allows you to give priority to various services. In any case, what QoS there is, to favour voice and video traffic
over the WiFi link, is already enabled.
There is support for the Orbi WiFi System, including a manual, somewhere at the end of this link:
>>>> Orbi RBK50 | WiFi System | NETGEAR Support <<<<
See if there is anything on Parental Controls that will give you any useful control.