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Orbi slow file transfer from wireless client to wired client
New Orbi owner and i'm generally satisfied. I have a PC desktop wirelessly connected to the Orbi on the 5GHz band and when I was using my Asus RT-N66U, I would consistently see 20MBps (that's bytes) ...
WMM should be enabled all the time, regardless of media. This keeps the speeds good on wifi. It's mainly for troubleshooting if needed.
Daisy Chaing is for two or more satellites. You can disable it.
astrojohn wrote:
Since multi-media isn't of much interest to me, I figured turning it off would avoid any kind of QoS functionality (I had it turned off in my Asus) so I turned it off. That's when the xfer speed dropped considerably. I re-enabled it and suddenly I'm back to a reasonable rate. From what I can tell on the hidden web pages, QoS isn't even enabled - or maybe I'm misreading what I'm seeing. And file xfers should be in the background at lowest priority which is exactly what I don't want.
Re daisy-chaining: the Help states it only applies to a three unit system - I presume they mean three satellites but I could be wrong again!
I doubt that's the problem. I did an experiment with my Asus router and the TP-link adapter connects at 300Mbps just fine. I also connected a different PC (Inspiron Laptop) and it only connects at 54, also dropping to 6 occasionally.
Rebooted the Orbi and no difference at all. I hesitate to do a reset since the damn thing is only 3 days old.
Ok, somebody 'splain this to me. WMM unchecked, I get 802.11a on 5Ghz and 802.11g, both 54Mbps. WMM checked I get 300Mbps, 802.11n on 5Ghz and 802.11g on 2.4GHz. Still can't specifically connect to 2.4GHz but I suppose that's a "feature" of the Orbi.
Geez, this is infuriating! I'll check again tomorrow and see if it's still working the way I want it to.
John
WMM is a form of QoS for wireless.
So did you have WMM disabled before and now it's enabled? It should be enabled by default and enabled most of the time...
Since multi-media isn't of much interest to me, I figured turning it off would avoid any kind of QoS functionality (I had it turned off in my Asus) so I turned it off. That's when the xfer speed dropped considerably. I re-enabled it and suddenly I'm back to a reasonable rate. From what I can tell on the hidden web pages, QoS isn't even enabled - or maybe I'm misreading what I'm seeing. And file xfers should be in the background at lowest priority which is exactly what I don't want.
Re daisy-chaining: the Help states it only applies to a three unit system - I presume they mean three satellites but I could be wrong again!
You can (and probably should) have WMM enabled without full-blown QOS being enabled. Not even sure QOS really works, given the state of the web GUI.
Daisy chaining applies to one router plus two or more satellites. It allows the satellites to talk directly to each other without going through the router in cases where the placement of the units makes that prefereable.
