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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.
I saw in Device Manager under the advanced tab on my wireless card that there is an option for preferred band. It was set to no p reference. I changed it to prefer 5G. We'll see what happens.