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Patatorz
Jan 24, 2025Star
Orbi App and speed test
Hello the community, I have the chance to have high speed internet access through fibre (8Gbps up and down) that I use with my Orbi 970. I’m trying the Speedtest of Ookla through the orbi app and see...
plemans
Jan 25, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Its been brought up before. It used to be a larger issue because many of the test servers couldn't max out gigabit. Thats gotten a lot better but now we're creeping up on 10g speeds and we're back to servers not being able to saturate those speeds.
Sadly not much to do about it. Netgear is aware of the issue.
In regards to the app, if the speedtest is ran from the netgear app, its host on the router. whether its ran on your phone or pc. But if you run it on the speedtest app, then it hosts on the device you're using and you'll get quite a bit of different results because usually the wireless is the bottleneck.
Patatorz
Jan 25, 2025Star
Thanks for your feedback and fully aligned on all what you mention. But the topic was more of it is possible in the future to select or the orbi app the server for speed test.