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FURRYe38's avatar
FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 04, 2019

Orbi RBR50 is not supporting 900Mb+- on the WAN to LAN test

So I'd like to call NG's attention to the following test results for Orbi RBR50. I'm not seeing anything near 900mbps on the WAN to LAN test. Using both iPerf and Duckwares simple WAN to LAN test pro...
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tuna_ertemalp
Luminary
Jul 31, 2019

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/RBR40-wired-to-quantum-FiOS-only-getting-half-speed-download/m-p/1781416/highlight/true#M67099

 

This points to a post with screenshots I just made that strongly hints at:

 

tuna_ertemalp wrote:

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So, my PC is certainly able to see WIRED 1000/40 speeds when it is connected to the right internet servers. However, testing against certain servers straight from my PC is sub-1000, and the internal SpeedTest app on the Orbi is definitely stuck at reporting ~500 which is:

 

  • either because it has a bug in testing (so, it detects half the speed) or
  • because it has a bug in reporting (so, it reports half of what it found) or
  • because it is picking a slow server to run against (so, the test server it uses is limited to 500).

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