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Speedtest vs Orbi Speed Test
I have signed up for a 1200 MBPS speed with my ISP. I conducted two types of speed tests:
1) Plugged in ethernet cable coming out of Orbi Router to my computer an ran SpeedTest.NET and I get a speed of about 500 MBPS. I get similar speed when I run speedtest on my mobile phone hooked to the Orbi Wireless.
2) Orbi App Speed Test: When I run speedtest on my Orbi App (I have an RBK752) the download speed shoots up all the way upto 1200+.
Pl. see attached screen shots.
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There is zero possibility that the computer will record a Speedtest higher than 1GHz, because that is as fast as the ethernet interface will run. Even if the computer is connected directly to the ISP device, Speedtest will record less than 1G.
The smartphone will be limited to the maximum speed of the WiFi connection. The Orbi maximum "link rate" on the user side is 833Mbs for 5G WiFi (1,200Bps on WiFi6), but devices cannot achieve that speed due to losses inherent in WiFi and conflict with other devices. This article seems to lead to the conclusion that an actual speedtest of 500Mbs is "very good".
https://www.speedguide.net/faq/what-is-the-actual-real-life-speed-of-wireless-374
I do not know what the effect of "Link Aggregation" is on Speedtest. It would be very interesting to see what the computer records when connected directly to the ISP device. Could you try that and report?
How I envy anyone who has 1.2G internet access.
I am not using an ISP device. The cable from the ISP's cable box is hooked to the Orbi modem router and when I connect with that I get a speed of upto 400-500 MBPS.
There may be a semantic issue. The Orbi RBR750 router requires "connection to an existing modem or gateway."
(see page 4) https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/orbi/RBK752.pdf
The test is to connect the computer to that ISP cable box and do a speed test. I am not aware of many PC's that can aggregate two gigabit connections as the Orbi does, so the resulting speed cannot possibly be more than 1Gbps.
The issue (as I see it) is that the modem is set up to split that 1.2Gbps feed into two parts to send down two gigabit ethernet cables to the Orbi (one to the WAN port and one to to LAN port 1). The Orbi router is clearly able to combine those two internet feeds into a single 1.2Gbps total. When a computer is attached to a LAN port, I honestly have no idea what happens. Does the Orbi serve up a maximum of 1Gbps to the computer LAN port, or does it somehow connect one of those ISP ports to the computer LAN port, which would result in a little over 500Mbps - which is what the computer is reporting.
People who participate in the community forum for the AX product line may have investigated this situation. Perhaps if the question is posted in that forum, someone will have personal experience to relate:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax
