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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...
Thank you for the information. This will definitely go in the wired speed troubleshooting file. I did not have this issue, and frankly didn't know you could even set a ethernet port to throttle down like this.
I checked my ethernet adapter setting on 1 desktop and 4 laptops, and all of them were set for Auto Negotiation, which is I'm assuming the default. Also I rarely use the ethernet ports, except on the desktop.
I wonder how exactly it got changed, that is super strange. I'm glad you figured it out. Sounds like a hair pulling experience for sure.
The predominate theory on how it got changed is that when the router initially talks to Windows, if it has trouble negotiating, it will default to the lowest acceptable setting. The interesting thing is that I removed the Orbi and put my Lynksys router back on before I figured this out and the Lynksys worked perfectly even though the setting had been changed (in other words the Lynksys software told Windows to change this apparently). Once I came across this as a possible solution, I reattached the Orbi and it defaulted back to 100Mbps. I then changed the setting to Auto Negoiate and it found 1.0 Gbps. Not sure why that would happen unless the firmware is some how set to accept the change in Windows settings.
My major frustration though, was in the fact that Netgear not only didn't help, but even went so far as deny the issue existed even when I provided a link to this thread. By the way, I was talking to their second level support at this time. Anyway, as with others, I only had the slow connection issue on the desktop I have hardwired. Wireless through put has been consistent at each attempt. My only issue was with the wired connection.