iPad Pro on new ORBI RBKE963

Point to point in our case is a fixed wireless connection.  We connect a router to a transmitter on our roof.  We connect to a tower over radio waves to our Internet provider’s tower.  Their towers are connected either by fiber or radio or cable to the Internet.  We don’t have cable or satellite or POTS/phone, so no modem at all.

Before the switch to the new router and satellite, we had the ORBI 81 mesh router and satellites and both Wi-Fi devices and Ethernet devices were at around 50 mbps, which is our plan maximum.  We were having trouble connecting the whole house because you can only connect two satellites in a daisy chain and they didn’t reach far enough to get to the office over the garage, or the garage, much less the barn.  Also our IPTV just keeps spooling on and off.  We replaced the over a decade old internet company router with the new Netgear ORBI router, hoping to fix any problems the old router may have been causing to IPTV staying connected.  

The new router and satellites still don’t reach the perimeter to the offices over Wi-Fi, but the new router has Ethernet connections available, so we connected the one satellite to over Ethernet to reach the office upstairs and the the satellite in the office near the router is wifi.  Though only about 10 feet from the main router, the downstairs office can’t connect over Wi-Fi to the router and has to have the satellite, maybe because it is in a closet?  Fortunately I still have the Ethernet cables that go from there to the other rooms that I had put in when we built 18 years ago.  They are Cat 5, but better than nothing.

Our Roku TV with attached Firestick are connected by that old Cat 5 cable to the new ORBI router and the main streaming services work.  I have one main Firestick IPTV app that just keeps spooling moth of the time though, even though the Firestick shows a 55 mbps speed consistently.  

I have no idea why our iPads and iPhones which were at about 50 mbps with the old router and old ORBI are now in the 12 mbps range, (over Wi-Fi).  I had the Netgear Security set up and VPN and have turned it off now because the IPTV app won’t work at all with it on and I thought it might be slowing down the iPad/iPhones, but that did not fix the low speed on the Apple devices.  First the ORBIs I bought last year and now the new ones and I seem to be making things worse.  I must be doing something wrong.  

Our ISP says they don’t throttle or limit or any of those words and since the Firestick consistently shows 51ish mbps over Ethernet through the ORBI router,