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mds818
Aspirant
May 18, 2017

Orbi Speed isn't fast enough

Hi All,   I am on Time Warner/Spectrum and use their Ubee cable modem with my MacbookPro and Orbi systen. When I had an Apple Airport Extreme, I got 300mbps + speeds but it was unstable. Now that i...
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tomsliwowski
Apprentice
May 19, 2017

Is your MacBook Pro hardwired or wireless? I'm assuming wireless since you mention instability on the AAE. Running iperf between my router and sattelite I get about 350Mbps. However running iperf between the router and a Linux laptop I get around 200Mbps. Keep in mind the router has a floor and a lot of plumbing in between so the speed would be hurt by that.

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    mds818
    Aspirant
    May 19, 2017

    Running it wirelessly. With my airport extreme I was getting over 300mbps, so I know it must be some setting...it's just netgear wants to charge a minimum of $49 even though it's a month out of warranty and has been happening from the get go.