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rthomem
Oct 07, 2020Aspirant
Orbi RBR20 slows wifi daily to 40mb/s.
I have an RBR20 and an RBR40. I have 2 plugin satelites and a wall satelite, RBS20 and RBW30 respectively. Originally I replaced my RBR20 with a new RBR40 I bought on ebay (I liked that it had 2 et...
fmalloy
Nov 11, 2020Luminary
Here is what I found so far in my case:
The slowdown only appears to affect wireless devices connected to the RBR20 router, not devices connected to either of the 2 RBS20 satellites
I have disconnected every WiFi client and wired device - starting with the Philips Hue hub and the Amazon Echo - the slow down on the RBR20 did not resolve
I did not reboot the router after every disconnect and wait a week while disconnected to see if it resolves. I just do not have that kind of time. If a device was saturating the WiFi causing the router slowdown, disconnecting it should show the problem resolved.
So, I really don't think any of my devices are saturating the network and causing the slowdown.