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Slooooow iPad 3 & iPad 2 on Orbi - everything else super fast
Picked up an RBK53 - three pack Orbi at Costco on Friday. I have an iPad 2, iPad 3 both running iOS 9.3.5. They will likely never get upgraded past that, iOS 10 doesn't support them. Both devi...
Hello djc6
I was able to get my hands on a Ipad 2 and test it on my orbi and I am getting the same result as you are it will not go over 20 mbs enen though my laptop is getting 70+ on speed tests I will pass this along to our engineers to see if we can find out why.
DarrenM
I hooked back up my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v2 N300 class, 2.4Ghz router which I replaced with Orbi. My iPad 2 & 3 were able to get speeds 2x faster - 40Mbps down.
Curiously, when I use the Orbi both are pegged at almost exactly 20Mbps down like something is rate limiting it. The speedtest.net graph is a perfectly flat line that I've observed nowhere else. Still not sure why faster at uploading.
Hello djc6
Have you made sure that the beam forming is unchecked its located in Advanced-Advanced Setup-Wireless settings try un checking that and see if this improves your connection.
DarrenM