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Orbi RBK853 (upgrading from RBK753S)- Comparison tests thread (speed and signal strength)
Well, I only recently upgraded from an RBK53 to an RBK753S (AX4200) and certainly did not expect to upgrade again so soon. However I have since gotten an internet plan speed upgrade for a nominal mon...
Ya thats one thing were waiting on is for router mfrs to start including 2.5 or higher speed LAN ports on the LAN side. Only way of getting past 1000Mpbs currently is on the 5Ghz side and you need a 4x4 mimo device to achieve that on 5Ghz AX. So in some ways it's not cost effective or realistic for most home users to pay for anything over 1000Mpbs from there ISPs since most LAN side speeds seen in HW is only 1000Mpbs. Been asking and waiting for speeds over 1000Mpbs on the LAN side for years now for the home consumer. I see if slowly graduating on the WAN side. There are HW considerations as well on the consumer side that is a factor in being able to handle 2.5 or higher speeds.
True, although keep in mind you can still use over one gigabit per second, just not on one single device.
Meaning you can still spread it across the network. With my 1440Mbps of provisioned bandwidth, I can use the full 940 Mbps of a 1 gigabit ethernet connection for a large download for instance and still have another 540 megabits per second for the rest of the devices in the house.
So in that sense it is still good to have over 1 gigabit per-second provisioned.
I may try the Killer link aggregation which comes built-in with my killer Wi-Fi adapter and killer Lan connection. I don't believe there is any extra cost for this.
Meaning you can still spread it across the network. With my 1440Mbps of provisioned bandwidth, I can use the full 940 Mbps of a 1 gigabit ethernet connection for a large download for instance and still have another 540 megabits per second for the rest of the devices in the house.
So in that sense it is still good to have over 1 gigabit per-second provisioned.
I may try the Killer link aggregation which comes built-in with my killer Wi-Fi adapter and killer Lan connection. I don't believe there is any extra cost for this.
True, bandwidth spread cross the network will work. It's just the conenct rate vs acutal bandwidth seen on 1 device will have many factors in seen anything over 1000Mbps on the down. Something that currnent consumer home products have not quiet yet broken into though we are seeing some cracks. I bought a 2.5 and a 5Gb USB 3.0 to Ethernet adatpers off amazon for fairly expensive cost and a 2.5Gb ethernet PCIe adapter for my desktop a few months ago. So we are seeing some support starting to appear. 10Gb I feel is still a ways off. Really need HW and CPU devices to be able to handle that kind of speed though my in wall cabling is ready for it.
Quick update:
My Orbi RBK853, along with my Arris S33 modem, have both been rock solid since I got it installed a week ago. Really happy with it. :)
No disconnects and speed seems very stable. Also got great speeds via wifi when I tested it on my main laptop (before switching that one to an ethernet connection). 1,440 Mbps on the RBK853 itself (not usable for a single connection since the Orbi's LAN ports max out at 1 gigabit) and 858 Mbps via wifi.
Have not conducted too many wifi tests since I now have my Predator hooked up via an ethernet port on the Orbi and my other laptop intermittently has lower speeds due to trying to disable the RunSwUSB service that comes eith the Netgear A7000 adapter that I am using.
I am now working to get my A7000 adapter working without disconnects... It works fine on my Predator, but it disconnects every so many hours (no set time) on my other laptop, like many others having major issues with this adapter (youtube comments about this issue date back to 2017, yet there is no fix yet).
I tried changing some advanced Win 10 power settings (which Samsung had actually REMOVED completely out of the box, so had to create two registry entries).
So far no disconnects but it has only been about 7 hours since I made the changes (not sure what settings apply when that option is not even there...).