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orbi ax4200 753S
I’ve got an Orbi AX4200 RBK 753S Tri-band Mesh WiFi 6 system; RBR750 and two RBS 750. House is 3200 sf total, 2-story. We have Cox Giga-blast service. On my Orbi app it shows download speeds of 750...
I did the factory resets, and did a speed test directly hardwired off the RBR750, with Wifi turned off from the device, and the 2 RBSs turned off/disconnected. The speeds on the hardwire increased dramatically: on my wife's Mac we got 886.93 Mbps download, 36.63 upload. So that was quite an improvement. However, when using Wifi, about 25' away from the router (and RBSs connected/powered on), the download fell to 361.72 Mbps, while upload increased what I would consider to be an insignificant amount to 36.79.
That would be probably be a good speed result for wifi at that distance. Distance will impact wifi performance. Wireless speeds will never be as good as wired, especially at a distance. Device antenna design will be a factor as well. 2x2 systems will be the slowest. 4x4 or higher should have best results. Most Macs are 2x2. Even my iphone 12 max is 2x2. I presume it's hard to fit much more in to such a small case design. :smileywink: