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RBR10 Orbi AC1200 Dual-Band Mesh Wi-Fi System (4-pack)- Wifi Speed HALF of the Wired SPEED
Just freqaking bought this WIFI Mesh system. The Wifi SPEED is HALF of the Wired Speed even standing within 5 feet of the main router. Why is this? I upgraded the FW to the latest one also. AN...
Hi !
I have no idea what your credentials are, but I am kind of a Network engineer.
I needed the mesh as the ASUS RT-AC3200 I had went bad and I replaced it with a Synology, but that could not cover the whole house.
I do agree that the speeds on Wifi are not the same as Wired connections but it is NOT that much slow, half the speed on Wired.
On ASUS, I had
Wired: 350 MBps
Wireless: 325 MBps
On Synology:
Wired: 350
Wifi: 315
On this Netgear Orbi
Wired: 350
Wifi: 140
That is NOT acceptable.
This is what I am talking about.
This is NOT normal. As far as this forum and whoever is handling this, this is Netgear, right, not a small company, not a new company, so it does not make sense. It appears amateurish and that's not what is expected of a Company like Netgear.
So now, I need a resolution to this HALF speed issue. I found some hacks for this issue, but I just got this Orbi yesterday, I am not going to hack this yet. Please suggest what the issue is and what can be done to fix this.
919263 wrote:On this Netgear Orbi
Wired: 350
Wifi: 140
That is NOT acceptable.
This is what I am talking about.
This is NOT normal. As far as this forum and whoever is handling this, this is Netgear, right, not a small company, not a new company, so it does not make sense. It appears amateurish and that's not what is expected of a Company like Netgear.
I agree entirely. I would take it back. You appear to be under a (common) misunderstanding about this community forum. None of us are Netgear engineers, or even random Netgear employees. In my case, I bought an Orbi and after a year had a question about, "Why is it doing this?" Being too cheap to pay to talk to Netgear, I came to the forum and some really smart people helped me. So, I stayed around.
My guess is the Netgear engineers have no place on their time cards to spend browsing the dozens of community forums looking for a question they could answer.