I've been struggling with this for over 6 months, and am about ready to abandon Orbi & buy Eero, but before I do, I'll give the Orbi one last chance here.

I have an RBR50 with 1 satellite & 1G service from ISP.

RBR50 is running on latest firmware (V2.7.2.102).

After I reboot the router, and generally for about 10 days thereafter, all is good: all devices in the house get full bandwidths via wifi, as expected. But then, for no apprent reason, usuallly between 1 & 2 weeks after the last reboot, and this change always happens overnight, I find that our MacBook Pros are throttled to <40Mbps, while our iOS and other devices remain unaffected.

I've seen other past posts about the same behavior, where updating to newer firmware helped: I started seeing this under an earlier version of the firmware, and the update did indeed fix it, but only for a while, and now, it's systematic that I'm ending up having to reboot the router at least every 2 weeks. A real pain since our whole house depends on bandwidth now with WFM under COVID, and each reboot inevitably disrupts various video meetings. This simply should not be happening with a supposedly top line product.

Advanced wireless config details shown in attached screenshot.

Is there a CLEAR fix, or should I just ditch Orbi & buy Eero?

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