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ChuckieCheese
Jan 28, 2017Luminary
Orbi: We really need separate SSID for 2.4 Ghz and 5Ghz or speed is limited to less than 200 Mbps
TLDR: With Orbi, my 5Ghz capable devices are "forced" to connect to 2.4 Ghz most of the time, slowing down speed. Tested against 3 different routers and my 5Ghz capable can connect to 5Ghz network al...
st_shaw
Nov 27, 2017Master
Moh_V It wasn't clear from what you wrote. If you can get 300 Mbps on that phone with the Verizon router then you should do better than 92 Mbs with Orbi. Something must be wrong. I have a couple questions:
1. Is your verizon rotuer's WiFi still active? You should turn it OFF.
2. Is Orbi in Access Point mode? You should put Orbi in Access Point mode if you are still using your Verizon router.
3. You said you disabled 2 GHz. How exactly did you do that? The latest Orbi firmware does not allow disabling bands.
4. Check your cabling and connections to make sure Orbi is connected through to your router using gigabit hardware and cat5e or better cables. A speed limit of 92 Mbs sounds like Orbi could be limited by a 100 Mbps LAN connection somewhere.
5. What do you get for a speed test if you wire a computer to the Orbi router?
khad
Nov 27, 2017Apprentice
st_shaw wrote:
4. Check your cabling and connections to make sure Orbi is connected through to your router using gigabit hardware and cat5e or better cables. A speed limit of 92 Mbs sounds like Orbi could be limited by a 100 Mbps LAN connection somewhere.
If you're taking bets, my money is on #4.
- Moh_VNov 29, 2017AspirantOk thank you. The issue was with cable. I replaced it and im getting similar speeds.