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acebeforejack
Aspirant
Dec 20, 2019

Orbi wifi 6 RBR850 hardwire speeds slow

I recently upgraded my home wifi to the newest Orbi wifi 6 imesh, (RBR850) Before i changed out my other router i tested my speeds hardwired and wirless. I am getting 1g thru comcast.. Before i switc...
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McLong
Luminary
Dec 23, 2019

I'm experiencing the exact same thing. Speedtest GigE hardwired are slower than WiFi.

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switters
Apprentice
Dec 24, 2019

I'm experiencing the same thing. Just posted another thread about it, but following here.

 

I have Xfinity gigabit and my house is wired for ethernet. Before I installed Orbi Mesh, my iMac Pro in my home office was getting ~930 Mbps down.

 

After installing Orbi, it was getting only 200-300 Mbps!