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Orbi RBR850 sudden slow/ restricted speed
Hi I Have recently bought a 3 pack system all working ok and has been for around 3 weeks Suddenly, wifi seems to be limited to a maximum of 250mb. Nothing has changed in the setup, all connected ...
Meadster wrote:
Hi and sorry for the slow reply, it's been a bit busy!
Wireless devices, there are many ranging from mobiles to tablets to laptops to games consoles with many different operating systems.
Wired PC speed, 500mb+
Wired direct to the ISP modem, 500mb+
Cable between the orbi and the ISP modem is a cat5e as supplied by netgear.
Cable between the ISP modem and the ONT is a cat 6
Size of the house, 600sqft<
Distance between router and satellites is less than 30ft. There isn't much choice with this as the satellites would be sitting outside the house. > Distance between the RBR and RBS should be 30 feet at least. If you can't fit this distance, then I recommend you turn down the power on the RBR from 100% to 25%. Under Advanced Tab/Advanced Settings/Wireless Settings
Materials, suspended timber floor on the ground, timber on the first. walls are solid brick on the ground and timber stud on the first.
I have followed the suggested methods below for turning the system on etc.
Can you confirm the size of the home? Is 600 correct? If so, you may have too much wifi in the home for this size of home.
Correction on size, that should have been 600sq ft per floor so a total of 1,200sq ft. It had occurred that I may have too much wifi although it seems to be behaving and running as it should. I'll have a look and try with turning them on and off or adjusting the power as suggested and see what happens.
Ok. That makes more sense. Ya, 1200sqft the RBR alone can handle that. If you have two RBS deployed, I would turn OFF one of them then also reduce the power to 25%.
I can get away with just 1 RBS in my 5000sq ft home and run 50% normally.