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Orbi wired backhaul performance
Has anyone that isn’t experiencing issues gotten an idea of the performance gains, if any, with wired backhaul? Also, has netgear mentioned anything about opening up the 3rd high speed band to wirele...
I tried wired backhaul (using Homeplug as my place isn't wired for ethernet) and found it worked fine...but the wireless backhaul was actualy better for me, so i reverted. I have thankfully not had any of the dropouts that others are reporting on his forum - very happy user. And I'm on the 2.1.1.16. I think if I had true ethernet in the home the wirted backhaul would allow some very interesting configurations in my long and narrow home (with the broadband input unfortunately in a remote corner!) but the "original" wireless backhaul actually gives me fine results - between 167-273 Mbps near the satellite and 20-40 Mbps in far corners. My connection is supposedly 1 GB but...given that I don't need to do anything terribly demanding with it - I'm not a gamer, there are only two of us using the connection and this is fine for simultaneous downloading and streaming), I'm going to leave well enough alone!
- Thanks for the response. If you don’t mind, was your homeplug gigabit or one of the 500-600 Mb models? I know even the gigabit model doesn't quite hit full speed, but it’s at least a reference point for me.
- Hi. Gigabit. The long story is that on some plugs I get very good throughout (800 mbps according to the tplink app) but as luck would have it where I wanted to put the orbi it dropped in half - must be a different sub circuit. And of course 400 isn’t 400 - it is shared up and down so it reduced the broadband to an effective 200 max.