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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...
Right, no need for remote services, switch level qos, the power envelope or the size (that wouldnt fit in my small built in network/telco/coaxbox) that the Orbi doesnt already provide downstream. What was it that you were making sure of exactly?
Making sure you did have a managed switch, if you did, would have to ask how you were making it work. LOL. Seen issues with other posters having issues with manages switches. I presume there is some switch configurations that could make them work with the Orbi system. Just know know what that would be. I have two swtiches in between my router and satellite. Working well. Non managed of course.
I was running some ethernet backhaul tests the other day and am seeing something a bit weird. When I connect my laptop to either orbi satellite via the the ethernet ports i see around 940Mbps. When I connect my laptop to the ethernet port of the orbi router, however, I get around 740Mbps. When I bypass the orbi router and connect it directly to the switch via the same cable its back to 940 Mbps. Any idea why the orbi router would degrade the performance so much?
I'm using FW 2.1.3.4 on all the Orbis and I have a netgear GS308 as my switch that all the orbis are connected to.
That is strange, when you upgraded to 2.1.3.4 did you do a full wipe with the reset pin or just an upgrade? I have (in a seperate elaborate thread) experienced odd performance issues out of the routers ports when upgrading to newer firmwares. At one point I was locked around 500Mbps from the router, but my (then wireless) ports on my satellites would give me over 800Mbps... wireless was FASTER than my routers ports! I ended up downgrading to the original firmware (yes the oldest one out there) on router and satellites, i then wiped them using the reset pin, and upgraded to the last of the 1.x firmwares, repeated the reset with pin again, then moved to the 2.x firmwares... my routers switch suddenly went back to full speed. I have seen this happen many times on older routers when I put WRT or Tomato firmwares on them, sometimes to get performance back I had to go to the oldest original firmwares the router supported to restore all functionality, then upgrade back to the current.
That being said, FIRST I would check to be sure your ethernet cable isnt the issue, swap it and retest... sometimes the simplest thing is the source of your problem.
I tested the ethernet cable definitely not that. When I plug directly into the cable the Orbi router is using I get 940Mbps. When I plug my other cable into the satellites I get 940Mbps. When I plug that same cable into the back of the Orbi router 700Mbps.
I did full resets of all the Orbis when flashing them with the latest firmware.