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amrobx
Guide
Dec 28, 2017

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...
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radamo
Apprentice
Jan 26, 2018

I noticed the same thing... my ping was reduced back to where it was before I implemented Orbi.  The D/L and U/L speeds haven't changed but I am much happier to have a lower ping rate for occasional gaming etc... 

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linkwrt
Guide
Jan 27, 2018

Over wire using RBS50 i have full speed  >950-970mbps,

Wireless is >500 <600mbps old macbook air.

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    radamo
    Apprentice
    Jan 27, 2018

    I only have 100Mb wifi (actual performance is over 200 though).  My DL/UL speeds were about the same with either method. 

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      linkwrt
      Guide
      Jan 27, 2018

      check RBS satellite if is connected to 2.4Ghz or both 5Ghz.

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        radamo
        Apprentice
        Jan 30, 2018

        The connection to the satellite is wired and does not use the wireless frequencies.