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RBR50 Intermittent bandwidth cap for PC only
I have a RBR50 Orbi network and a 185Mbps internet connection. Occasionally, I'll see poor performance on my win10 PC on wireless, and I'll do an Inernet speed test to see that I'm capped at 10, 30,...
I would guess that when you have bad bandwidth you would be connected to a disturbed 2.4 GHz channel. When disconnecting and reconnecting or rebooting Orbi the wireless card will always prefer 5 GHz channel and that's why things get better.
I'd do a wireless scan and select a 2.4 GHz channel that is least used by the surrounding and set it as the 2.4 GHz channel.
Do the same also for the 5 GHz channel.
So, I looked today. I'm getting 30Mbps on the laptop. I can see looking at the attached devices on my Orbi management page that the laptop is connected to 2.4G not 5G. Why is it doing that? I saw before that it was on 5G and my phone is always on 5G. I've looked into figuring out the best 2.4G channel before, but that's going to change over time. I would think I'd be much better off on 5G. Why am I not getting any consistency with that?