Orbi RBR50 specifically throttling MacBook Pros

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FURRYe38 wrote:

Any progess on this? 

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ChrisEchWH wrote:

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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Hi, sorry for delay in replying: needed to wait for 1-2 weeks to check for stability after enabling MIMO & beamforming (reboots always restore unthrottled bandwidth, so key test is to see if it stays that way beyond 1-2 weeeks). Sadly, I have to report that enabling MIMO & beamforming did not result in a stable fix, as the throttling showed up again this monring.  BTW, I've tried tweaking various other settings over the last year (ports, etc..), none of which worked.

BTW, this should be anotehr big lead for troubleshooting: the throttling always appears to get restored during the night from Sunday to Monday, 1 or 2 weeks after the last reboot: is there something built into the router firmware that gets automatically reset at every Sun-Mon night?

Speaking of firmware, I see that a new one was just released (.104)  so I just updated to this, and will give it one last chance before buying an Eero....