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Orbi speeds on RBS850 are much slower since switching to Fiber Internet with Nokia modem
I just upgraded to fiber internet yesterday since it recently became available. When doing the Orbi internal app speed test, it is showing over 1GB up and down. However when doing the speedtest.net a...
Glad you got it working. Please mark your thread as solved so others will know. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/000062080/How-do-I-back-up-the-configuration-settings-on-my-Orbi-WiFi-System
Enjoy. 📡
HJJONES01 wrote:
when doing the speedtest.net app for wifi speed around the house, I am seeing speeds from 500MB down to 120MB at times.
WiFi speed is affected by:
- The type of WiFi adapter in the device. (WiFi5 cannot achieve the same speed as WiFi6)
- Distance from the WiFi access point. This makes a dramatic difference.
- Material in the direct path between device and access point
These factors also affect the link between router and satellites. The farther apart they are, the slower the transmission between them. This could affect the speed reported when connecting a laptop to one of the satellites.
p.s. Disabling the ISP device WiFi is not the same as making it "only a modem". This can be tested by comparing the IP address shown on the Orbi Advanced Tab home page with the IP address reported by one of the "what's my IP" web sites.
As FURRYe38 pointed out, one of the annoying features of Netgear's Orbi platform is that the router does not detect and report new firmware until someone at Netgear "does something" to cause the Firmware Update feature to become aware of it. This can take some time. (For example, new firmware was released for the original RBR50 router in Feb 2023, but users continue to report that their router reports "no new firmware" to this day. Over a year later!)
The latest firmware for the 850 product was released in Sept 2023. Personally, I think it makes sense to give "early adopters" who constantly watch the support web site a chance to manually install new firmware and discover whether the quality assurance process worked well (or not). One would think that six months would be enough time for that. (certainly a full year in my case!)
p.s. (again) Is the Subject line on the post accurate? i.e. WiFi speeds were higher before changing to fiber internet?