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Orbi rbk50 90% performance drop over 2-3 days, memory leak?
I found another post, it seems there are hundreds of people reporting symptoms where their 300Mbps connection drops to 30Mbps. Completely unacceptable known issue. I updated the firmware but I c...
" I would try turning down the power output of the RBR from 100% to say 75 or 50% Under Advanced Tab/Advanced Settings. "
Helpful advice here. I just knocked it down to 75%, let's see if that increases performance. today.
Ok, so I think that power cycled or did something because now I'm back to what I usually see after a power cycle, 150Mbps . I expect it to go to sh$t back down to 10-15Mbps in a few days.
Under ADVANCED WIRELESS SETTINGS, I also noticed this, none of those were checked. Seems like the first one is a no-brainer, but I''m not putting any checks in anything and changing things one thing at a time.
Enable Implicit BEAMFORMING - Boosts WiFi speed, reliability, & range for all mobile devices
Why would anyone want that disabled? That seems like choosing 'disable good things'.
bariswheel wrote:......... I expect it to go to sh$t back down to 10-15Mbps in a few days.
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bariswheel, To me this looks like a build-up of loops in the system.
What type of devices do you have in your Orbi network?
Are your Sonos wired to Orbi? or are they wireless? What other wired devices do you have attached to Orbi?
As expected, a few days later, no difference. We are back to 30Mbps speeds, rebooted the router, and back to 150Mbps+ but expect it to go down again in a few days.
I changed my 5GHz channel to 40 and 2.4GHz to Channel 11, since all my Sonos speakers are on there.
I have at least 10 Speakers on 2.4GHz. But my work is on 5GHz, the only thing on 2.4GHz are my speakers.
Still think this is a memory leak. Fix it Netgear!!!
- I’m having the same issue. I got a gigabit connection and I only get 50-100 download and 10-25 upload. I reset the router to factory setting a few time too.
bariswheel wrote:.....
I changed my 5GHz channel to 40 and 2.4GHz to Channel 11, since all my Sonos speakers are on there.
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Do you use SonosNet? This is used when you have one of the speakers wired and all other speakers wireless.
If not then why are you changing the Orbi channel to 11 which the Sonos is on. Sonos should change the channels according to what you set Orbi to use and NOT the other way around!
A factory reset and setup from scratch needs to be effected before we can place the problem in FW.
bariswheel wrote:As expected, a few days later, no difference. We are back to 30Mbps speeds, rebooted the router, and back to 150Mbps+ but expect it to go down again in a few days.
I changed my 5GHz channel to 40 and 2.4GHz to Channel 11, since all my Sonos speakers are on there.
I have at least 10 Speakers on 2.4GHz. But my work is on 5GHz, the only thing on 2.4GHz are my speakers.
Still think this is a memory leak. Fix it Netgear!!!
Tonight we are at 9.5Mbps on this 500Mbps line. Atrocious. Going to restart every few days.
I'm disappointed I have to factory reset. I will do it when I have an hour or so this weekend.
