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Orbi rbk50
I currently have an Orbi rbk50 hard wired to a c6300. The internet speed at my c6300 is over 100mbs. Using the orbi app, the speed on the Orbi is over 100mbs. The speed I am getting at my laptop and ...
Jpol026 wrote:
The speed I am getting at my laptop and other devices is under 15mbs.
How are you measuring the speed at your laptop and other devices? i.e. Is the laptop connected with an ethernet cable to an Orbi LAN port, or with Wi-Fi? What tool is reporting 15MB?
I Am using an online speed test . I have the latest firmware. I haven’t yet tried to bridge thec6300 yet. When I first hooked up the orbi there was no speed drop off but I was constantly having to reboot the c6300 which I still do only not as frequently.
Lets bridge the modem as test again...
There is no wireless bridge tab on my c6300
Jpol026 wrote:
There is no wireless bridge tab on my c6300
Log into your C6300, then go to ADVANCED > Administration > Router Mode, select "no," then hit apply. That will put it in bridge mode, though it's not labeled as such in the menus.
I don't know whether that will also disable wifi on the C6300, but you can do it from ADVANCED > Administration > Wireless Settings and uncheck both the "enable wirless gateway radio" boxes (one for 2.4 GHz, and one for 5 GHz), then apply.
After both putting it in bridge mode and disabling wifi, your C6300 will basically just be a cable modem, which is generally the ideal setup if you want to use the Orbi as your router.
Jpol026 wrote:
I Am using an online speed test . I have the latest firmware. I haven’t yet tried to bridge thec6300 yet. When I first hooked up the orbi there was no speed drop off but I was constantly having to reboot the c6300 which I still do only not as frequently.
Having to reboot the C6300 frequently is not good. If something is wrong at that point, there is little that can be done to the Orbi to improve the situation.
As FURREYe38 pointed out, having two routers and two Wi-Fi networks side-by-side creates problems that can be avoided easily by turning off the Wi-Fi radios on one of them (the C6300 because the Orbi was purchased to improve Wi-Fi - duh) and by removing the routing functions from one of them. This decision is more complicated because the Orbi and the C6300 have different routingcapabilities. If you browse this forum, you will see that people have lodged numerous complaints about Orbi routing functions that they claim their previous Netgear router "did better." I, myself, have such simple needs that using Orbi as my router does everything I want. (Confession: I am so "plain vanilla" that I actually have my Orbi as a router behind my Spectrum modem, which is also a router, and everything I want to "works fine." Eventually, I may run into an issue where one of them has to quit routing, but I am not there yet.)
It is probably worth confirming: is Disney Circle implemented on the Orbi?
It is not yet clear to me whether the speed issue is connected to Wi-Fi or to everything. i.e. when the laptop is connected to one of the LAN ports on the C6300 to run the speed test and then moved to one of the LAN ports on the Orbi to run the speed test, speed drops from over 100MB to under 15MB? Or, is the speed drop only when the laptop is connected over Wi-Fi?
There is no wireless bridge tab on my c6300
