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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...
Yes, that was my experience too. I tried using the satellite to connect via Ethernet (effectively using it as a wireless bridge) but speeds were around 2.5 Mbps. Connection via Wi Fi 6 inches from the satellite was 350 Mbps.
I just tried taking the feed directly out of the switch, bypass the switch, and hooking into my desktop and it would still only give 95 Mbps. So I disconnected and hooked back up my Asus router and ran a test and it is immediately back to 232 Mbps. For some reason it was throttling my desktop computer and I do not know why. It is obviously nothing with my computer if just reattaching the old router fixes it. Well that bums me out...back to the drawing board for a mesh system....
I have measured 940 Mbps throughput between wired computers over the Orbi switch. Some piece of your hardware is either defective or misconfigured. That could be your Orbi, your cable, your switch, our your computer.
I recently had one port on a Netgear GigE switch go bad. That one port would only run at 100Mbs. Make sure the switch port is not your issue.
Obviously, make sure you are using Cat5e or Cat6 cables everywhere. Make sure the cables are less than 300' long. You could also try another desktop or laptop, if you have one available.
The problem might be the link speed auto-negotiate process on your desktop. Assumng you are using Windows, you should be able to hardcode the NIC on your desktop to 1000Mbit. You could try that and see if that fixes the issue.
Appreciate the reply. The Orbi hardware is the only thing that could be the issue. All things remaining exactly the same I shut down my cable modem and the orbi, hooked back up my asus, and turned back on cable modem and asus router. Immediately I had my 232 Mbps speed back on my desktop. No settings had to be changed or cables replaced.
Before I disconnected the Orbi I also tried changing link speed settings on my desktop and ports on the orbi and on my gigabit switch.I have already spent my sunday and the morning today messing with these. If it is this much of a hassle I would just rather get something different. For what they are charging these should be working right out of the box.
Unless you've tried new Cat5e or better cables between the desktop and the Orbi, it could still be a cable issue. A marginal cable, poor termination, dirty connector, broken wire, etc.
It seems you are convinced it is Orbi, so good luck with whatever other solution you go with.