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speed slows down Orbi
My iMac is connected through wifi to my orbi system. The orbi has 1 satellite. My internet service is AT&T gigspeed and when I test it with a CAT5 connection I get 950mbps up and down, but I don't us...
Before you trash your Orbi system, please know that it's not the Orbi system that is at fault. Your wireless devices are the culprit here and most other client side HW. Depending upon actual design of the HW, most client devices are limited by there actual throughput speeds. At most you'll not see anything much over 400-500Mb in actual throughput speeds. This differs from the connection rate speed you see 866Mb. This is a coonnection rate speed between the physical layer of the client device and the phsyical layer of the routers wifi only. Has nothing to do with actual data speed flow at your client device.
You need to contact Apple and ask them what there actual or theoretical speeds are with there devices.
Most wifi devices won't see anything around 900Mb. Current tech capabilities at the moment.
That may be true, however it is completely irrelevant since I am not expecting the wifi of the iMac to achieve even 400mbps, I would be happy with 200mbps and actually it is quite capable of 800mbps according to the Apple spec. My issue is I am only getting 40mbps, which is unacceptable. Got anything else?
Besides pissing you off, are you experiencing any issues with the "slower" 40Mbps speeds?