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Orbi Throttling Wired Ethernet connection
I noticed this morning that our RBR40 seems to be throttling our 200 Mbps Interenet speeds down to about 90 Mbps on the wired connections around my home. Wifi is at 200Mbps+. I did separate multiple...
ekhalil FURRYe38 , After borrowing a thunderbolt to giagbit adapter, a usb-c to gigabit adapter and a very long cat 6 cable, I think I was able to determine that there may be a problem with the CAT 6 cable running from the RBR40 to the jack in my office. I connected the long CAT6 directly from my RBR40 to my Imac and got full speeds and 1000baset hardware. I connected my Macbook to the RBR40 and got full speed. I then connected my Macbook to the jack in my office and got 90mbps and 100baset hardware. I'm going to change the connector on the old CAT 6 and see if that restores full speeds. In the mean time wi-fi gives me full speed.
Bielski wrote:
I noticed this morning that our RBR40 seems to be throttling our 200 Mbps Interenet speeds down to about 90 Mbps on the wired connections around my home. Wifi is at 200Mbps+. I did separate multiple speed tests on my iMac and also on my Apple TVs that that have wired connections. I've rebooted the Orbi, my Spectrum cable mode, and my iMac and nothing has solved the throttling. Does anyone have anything I can try before doing a factory reset? It really is crazy that Netgear offers absolutely ZERO free support for their products. Thanks!!
1) Do the wired device get IP addresses from Orbi or from the Spectrum modem/router? Please check the IP addresses of those wired devices and compare them with what you see on the wireless devices. If they are in different ranges then this can be an issue caused by the Spectrum modem is not just a modem but also a router.
2) What other wired devices do you have in the network? Do you have any wired speakers (e.g. Sonos) connected to Orbi?