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Orbi Wired Speeds Unacceptably Slow - Wifi Not Impacted - QoS Issues?
Ever since I have received my Orbi, I have been plauged with wired speed connection issues. My wired connection speed continues to be throttled from 10-20Mbps no matter what steps I take. My wireless...
I have to say I am usually a Netgear fan, but they sorely disappointed me here. they were ZERO help, up to and including denying this thread even existed.
After going through some HORRIBLE attempted support from Netgear, this turned out to be a relatively simple fix for me. It had to do with the router connection speed and duplex in Windows.
Open your Network and sharing center
click on your connection (i.e. ethernet, local, etc), usually some color like blue on the right side of the window
Choose properties
Choose Configure
Click on the advanced tab
In the "Property" list choose Speed and Duplex
In the "Value" drop down choose Auto Negotiation
Click OK
In my case the router\Windows had set the speed to 100Mbs which is what was slowing down the connection speed. After having it auto negotiate, it set itself to 1.0 Gbps and viola! I have the correct connection speed on my wired desktop.
Hope this helps a few people here.
Thank you for the information. This will definitely go in the wired speed troubleshooting file. I did not have this issue, and frankly didn't know you could even set a ethernet port to throttle down like this.
I checked my ethernet adapter setting on 1 desktop and 4 laptops, and all of them were set for Auto Negotiation, which is I'm assuming the default. Also I rarely use the ethernet ports, except on the desktop.
I wonder how exactly it got changed, that is super strange. I'm glad you figured it out. Sounds like a hair pulling experience for sure.