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RBR50 slow speeds
hi there I have just upgraded to a 1GBps fibre broadband. When I connect directly to my broadband provdier's router wifi I can get about 580MBps download. But when I connect via the Orbi RBR50 (which...
- Sounds like you are using a cat 5 Ethernet cable to connect your Orbi, switch to a cat 5e or 6. Test wired speeds from Orbi and then wireless.
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Sounds like you are using a cat 5 Ethernet cable to connect your Orbi, switch to a cat 5e or 6. Test wired speeds from Orbi and then wireless.
Electronics built into Ethernet adapters perform auto-negotiation when they detect that they are connected to another device:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonegotiation There is nothing the user can do to affect this function. A speed just slightly less than 100Mbps is characteristic of a 100M/Full connection. (There is some overhead in Ethernet. Not nearly as much as in WiFi, but there is still some.) This could be caused by any number of things, including the actual cable and the plugs that have been crimped on each end.
One tipoff is to open the router web interface (http://orbilogin.net ) and navigate to the Advanced Tab. Click the blue box "Show Statistics" in the top right box. Here's what my RBR50 looks like:
If your WAN port reports 100M/Full, then it's time to change the cable for sure.
I am having the same issue and did what you suggested and my STATISTICS look exactly like yours but when I run speed tests from several different sites I get speeds around 36mbps. When I connect directly into my modem I get the full 800mbps I am paying for. So that tells me it's not the PC's hardware or LAN cable.
I read previous posts of support that suggested it was the cable between the router and the wifi. I had a cat 5e cable and upgraded it to cat 6 - the problem has been resolved so you might wish to check that.