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AX6000 Mesh system (RBR850+1xRBS850)-very slow Wi-Fi or even disconnect
Hi, Issue description: about 3 months after I bought and installed my Orbi RBR850 with one satellite RBS850 Wi-Fi system, I started experiencing very slow bandwidth on both, laptops and iOS devi...
- Mystery resolved. I had a T-Mobile LTE extender box installed in my office about 7 years ago. As soon as I unplugged it, the WiFi started working flawlessly. Why that wasn’t a problem last year, I don’t know. But the radio signals between the receiver in my office and the sender on the 1st floor must have interfered with the Orbi WiFi.
Crazy!
Is there a difference in the ICMP (ping) results between computers connected with Ethernet and computers connected with WiFi?
It might be useful to open two command windows and simultaneously ping:
- an internet resource, such as google.com, and
- a local device that responds to ICMP. (Windows requires a firewall change to respond to ICMP.) The Orbi router responds to ICMP on the LAN side.
Both pings are very similar. The issue is that on the 2nd floor I only get about 10 MBit/s bandwitdh on my computers and 1 MBit/s on iOS devices or even dropped connections. It's terrible.