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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 sp...
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.