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Hatt0r
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Jan 08, 2022

Orbi RBR50v2 on BT full Fibre

Recently moved from cable ISP (Virginmedia) to FTTP one (BT). My setup consists of a RBR50v2 router and two RBS50 satellite ones over wifi.

 

Configured the router with my ISP PPOE settings and if I connect my laptop with a cat6 to the router i get the full speed: 900+mbps download and 110 mbps upload, so I m very happy with these.

 

If I connect with a wifi I get 500-600 mbps download and 30mbps upload which is kinda strange!

 

I am using what i consider mainly the default settings and especially my upload speed was always maxed out on my previous cable provider at 52mbps. 

 

Started playing with the settings i realised that i had ipv6 enabled to use the same PPOE settings and default MTU at 1492. Disabling ipv6 still seemed that the upload speed was throttled at 30mbps. Changing the MTU to 1500 or even 1452 with ipv6 disabled, upload maxed at 110mpbs! Re-enabling ipv6 is dropping upload to around 50+mbps.

 

Not sure why the pppoe implementation has these weird behaviour with ipv6. Even the download speed with virgin was maxing out at times on 600-700 mark.

 

I have even updated the firmware using the latest voxel one without much differences on the figures above or behaviour.

 

Is there anything i can do to slightly increase the download speed and use ipv6 without compromising on the upload speeds?

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  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
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    Jan 10, 2022
    Hatt0r wrote:

     

    Configured the router with my ISP PPOE settings and if I connect my laptop with a cat6 to the router i get the full speed: 900+mbps download and 110 mbps upload, so I m very happy with these.

     

    If I connect with a wifi I get 500-600 mbps download and 30mbps upload which is kinda strange!

     

    Are you complaining that your wifi speeds are not as fast as your wired speeds? If so, that's down to the laws of physics.

     

    Wifi is never as fast as wired. It also depends on the nature of your wifi clients, the receivers. For most devices 500 Mbps is excellent. Indeed, you will find it hard t get anywhere near those speeds with most wifi clients.

    You are talking about wifi speeds here?

     

    Understand Wi-Fi 4/5/6 (802.11 n/ac/ad/ax)

     

    @duckware knows their stuff and can bust a few myths and cut through marketing hype.

     

    By the way, when you change your Internet service – hardware, supplier or speeds – you have a different network. So it helps to start from scratch. Tell all the devices on the network to forget any settings carried over from your previous network.

     

    You may have done this. I can't tell from your message.

     

    You have posted in the section given over to the Orbi app. I doubt if that has much to do with your network's performance. You might get more help, and find earlier questions and answers specific to your device, in the appropriate section for your hardware. That's probably here:

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