Wired vs Wireless RBR50 V2.

Furry,

Googling around I found the solution. I am not sure if this is the only thing I will need to do:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-slow-file-transfer-from-wireless-client-to-wired-client/m-p/1575640

It was as simple as turning ON WMM.....

I was under the impression that things like MIMO, Beamforming and other "optimizations" could muck up the works, so I turned them off when I set up the system.

I also turned it off when I was trying to get the bridge to work with what I was able to access (I am not sure I tried to do some of the items that you are mentioning with the modem station, but I did do an IP passthrough from it to the ORBI.

For some reason this worked when the automatic/default bridge setting just refused to connect.

BTW, I turned off the nodes to see if that did it, but I found out that was not the reason.

Summary: Activation of WMM allowed connection to the 801.11ac rather than 801.11a (The suffix never tripped any alarms since I NEVER used that protocol in the past). I searched for 801.11a on Google, got that linked posting and it worked.

Thanks for the information on this, though and I am sorry I did not put the equipment specifics in my original posting!