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Steve1019
Guide
Oct 30, 2021

Orbi 960 Series Throughput

I'm a bit confused by an aspect of the new Orbi 6E routers. That is, if the 6GHz frequency has so much more throughput than the 5GHZ frequency (twice as much) and the second 5GHz band that is the one...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 30, 2021

plemans is correct. 6Ghz is even higher frequency and is more effected by building materials and such. The 6Ghz is front haul only on the 9 series Orbi. The wifi backhaul is still on 5Ghz at 2400Mpbs. 

 

Also honesly, I've never been able to get a device to connect at 4800Mpbs. I really wish router mfrs would not market that speed. It take near perfect conditions at at close range and GOOD FW to be able to see 4800Mbps in a test environement. Out here in the field, I've only seen around 3200Mpbs to maybe 3800Mpbs between two devices at close range on 5Ghz. Same goes for 6Ghz. And for every day use, 4800Mbps will never been seen for the average user. 2400Mpbs seems to be the sweet spot speed for wireless backhaul.

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Steve1019
Guide
Nov 03, 2021

I take part of that back. Wired backhaul appears to be limited to 2500Mbps, so the whole theoretical 4800Mbps capability on 6GHz seems to be completely limited to communication between devices connected to the same mesh unit. 

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    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Nov 03, 2021

    Yes.