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Orbi Lan speed
First my enviroment is roughly 5000 square feet Basement with 2 computer hard wired into a Netgear R7000 with DDWRT that been turn into a Wireless Bridge that have Ethernet run into an Old comput...
OrbiMan wrote:First my enviroment is roughly 5000 square feet
So I think going from NAS->>sat->>>wireless backhall->>>router >>>>wireless backhall cost me about 50-60% of my theoretical max speed of jacking into the NAS. So basically transfering file inside my net work max aout at ~350 mbps no where near the 866 mbps of AC
Sounds like you are getting good throughput all around.
Note that your measured throughput will never be more than about 50-60% of the reported WiFi connection rate (866 in your case), due to wireless overhead.
OrbiMan wrote:Right above the basement is my living room is an Orbi Sat with a NAS Hardwire into it with 2 ethernet cable that is bond together
I don't believe Orbi's switch supports bonding of Ethernet ports.
I am using the bonding mode Balance-alb in QNAP it doesn't require the router to support bonding.
i think your understanding of what balanced mode can do is the issue , in balanced mode the nas can send out data to two devices at the same time without loss in speed to ether device
Balance-alb (Adaptive Load Balancing)
Balance-alb is similar to balance-tlb but also attempts to redistribute incoming (receive load balancing) for IPV4 traffic. This setup does not require any special switch support or configuration. The receive load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation sent by the local system on their way out and overwrites the source hardware address with the unique hardware address of one of the Ethernet interfaces in the bond such that different peers use different hardware address for the server. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.
General switchesthis wont make one transfer twice as fast
in my testing i can achieve about 70MB/s max with the router and sat about 10 meters apart where the 1733M backhaul connects at its max sync eg perfect conditions , moving the sat further away effects the max sync and thus the throughput will lower accordingly
so placement is the key here , if the connection between the router and sat isnt optimal you wont get the max throughput
because the backhaul is 5 gig you also need to take into account its coverage can drop far quicker than 2.4 gig
took me quite a while to get the optimal location by having a laptop connected to the sat by ethernet and moving both sat and laptop to various areas and recording throughput and working out the best placement for the sat / sats to get the best throughput , the colored lights in no way give anything close to an accurate representation of actual quality of the backhaul connection
