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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.
lets try this, download the v210 FW file for the RBR unit. Re-load the firmware file and after the router processes it, do a full factory reset on the rbr and walk thru the setup wizard. As the router is doing the reset, power OFF the ISP modem for 1 minute then back ON. After waling thru the setu wizard with your wire connected PC, run a speedtest.net test from Safari or from there app that you can get from the apple store.
Ensure IPv6 is not enabled on the RBR router.
FW isn't the problem rather could be a HW issue. Others including my self are not seeing issues in v210.
Bielski wrote:
I took the Orbi RBR40 out of the chain and connected the iMac directly into the cable modem and got 234 Mbps.
I'll give this a shot FURRYe38. Just to confirm, you are suggesting to download the latest firmware version from Netgear v2.2.1.210 and follow the steps you outlined?
Correct.
FURRYe38, I gave it a shot this afternoon. Assuming that I followed your instruction correctly, there was no change. Wired Internet Speeds still at 90-95Mbps and WiFi at 235Mbps. At this point, I've swapped out everything but the RBR4o. If it is hardware related, as I'm starting to suspect, how does one get in touch with Netgear Support without having their overpriced service contract??