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Orbi RBR50 / RBS50 bandwidth drop
Hoping someone can help me. I'm 30 nanoseconds outside of Netgear's appaling 'you get 90 days then your on your own' paid support system so it's down to folks on here :) I have my Orbi router and...
- Final update to let future readers of this thread know that I'm an idiot and that you've probably wasted your time reading this if you're looking for a solution to Orbi bandwidth drops.
In the end.... it was an intermittent fault with my broadband line. It had a grounding issue caused by water getting into the wires at the point they entered my house. Engineer came out, replaced wires, been sorting like a dream for 4 days now.
Nothing to see here. Move on. Insert Homer Fading Into Bush gif.
Update - having my fingers crossed didn't work, unfortuanelty neither did moving the Sonos boost. Around 3 hours after I moved it my bandwidth dropped to around 500kbs. So, do you think the next steps are to turn the Vodafone router into to a modem and turn on the router in the Orbi? Not sure my Vodafeon router can do that, but I'll look in it.
That's the route I'd take.
Just in case its something in the vodafones own qos/settings causing the slow down.
Updating this with my latest findings.
TLDR - it might be a dodgy ethernet cable.
I mentioned I was using a PC connected to the router (with an ethernet cable) to give me a comparison against what I getting from the Orbi units. I'd test the speed on any devices that were connected to the satellites (either via wifi or ethernet), then jump on that PC to see what was actually coming out of the router. That allowed me to check that it wasn't the bandwidth to my house that was dropping. #
However, I was wrong and I am in fact an idiot. For some reason, I had that PC connected to the ethernet port of the Orbi (which itself was connected to the router). If I recall, I did this as I didn't have enough ethernet ports at the back of the router, so I just plugged the PC into the port on the Orbi base unit figuring that would be ok. So I wasn't actually comparing the speed the Orbi was seeing against the speed the router was getting, but by mistake, I was seeing the speed between the Orbi base unit and the router. When it dropped, both on the PC connected to the base, and any device connected to the satellites, it must be something to do with the connection between the two. It could be a QoS thing, could be that the router is throttling the ethernet port for some unknown reason. But it could also be the cable, and that's the easiest thing to test. So I've replaced that and so far it's been working for 24 hours without needing a reboot. WIll come report back to see if that holds!
BTW - the Vodafone router can't be turned into a modem only. You can't turn off the router functionaoity. So I'd need to buy a modem if the cable doesn't fix the issue.
- Final update to let future readers of this thread know that I'm an idiot and that you've probably wasted your time reading this if you're looking for a solution to Orbi bandwidth drops.
In the end.... it was an intermittent fault with my broadband line. It had a grounding issue caused by water getting into the wires at the point they entered my house. Engineer came out, replaced wires, been sorting like a dream for 4 days now.
Nothing to see here. Move on. Insert Homer Fading Into Bush gif. Glad to hear you got it sorted out!