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Orbi960 and GS110MEX speed slow when using 2.5Gb Ethernets
When I connect my Orbi to my Netgear switch via 2.5Gb ports, the transfer speed from a wired Mac is about half when I use a 1Gb port between the two. My setup is simple for testing purposes, and I ha...
I agree however is there a reason you are thinking it might not be the Orbi 2.5Gb port?
"My Mac into the Orbi 2.5Gb port and I get the 1Gb transfer rate." Shows the Orbi port is working as expected.
I replaced the switch, same results and I did some other testing but I'll net it out to the test that seemed to highlight this is a Switch/Router issue. I connected the Orbi to the switch at 2.5Gbps, I connected my Mac to the Switch at 2.5Gbs and got a perfect 1.4Gbps interest speed test. Shows that the 2.5Gbps ports are working on all devices. I ONLY moved my Mac to the 1Gbps port, and the speed dropped to ~350Mbps. If I move the Orbi to a 1Gbs port, I get ~960Mbps speeds so the issue is ONLY when the Orbi is connected to the switch at 2.5Gbps and other devices are connected at 1Gbps that I see the speed drop way down to ~350Mpbs.
However I did for giggles enable flow control on all the switch ports, and the speed shot up to ~650Mbps so clearly there is some issue with the speed disparity of having the Orbi Router on a 2.5Gbps port and the end devices being on 1Gbps. I was hoping this being a Netgear to Netgear connection, this would be easy but seems not....... I have other posts where people have similar issues and they enabled flow control on both devices, however I don't think the Orbi has Flow Control available on the Lan Ports so I think I am out of luck. Seems like a common problem and curious if Netgear is aware of this?
Sounds like something with this particular model switch.
I have the GS110MX version of that switch. I can check my system out and see if I can reproduce this.
Seems like something on the MEX variant of this switch being the factor here.
I recommend that you open up a support ticket and mention this thread and both Orbi and GS models and give all the details.
Did you get this figured out?
checkyourmirror wrote:
I replaced the switch, same results and I did some other testing but I'll net it out to the test that seemed to highlight this is a Switch/Router issue. I connected the Orbi to the switch at 2.5Gbps, I connected my Mac to the Switch at 2.5Gbs and got a perfect 1.4Gbps interest speed test. Shows that the 2.5Gbps ports are working on all devices. I ONLY moved my Mac to the 1Gbps port, and the speed dropped to ~350Mbps. If I move the Orbi to a 1Gbs port, I get ~960Mbps speeds so the issue is ONLY when the Orbi is connected to the switch at 2.5Gbps and other devices are connected at 1Gbps that I see the speed drop way down to ~350Mpbs.
However I did for giggles enable flow control on all the switch ports, and the speed shot up to ~650Mbps so clearly there is some issue with the speed disparity of having the Orbi Router on a 2.5Gbps port and the end devices being on 1Gbps. I was hoping this being a Netgear to Netgear connection, this would be easy but seems not....... I have other posts where people have similar issues and they enabled flow control on both devices, however I don't think the Orbi has Flow Control available on the Lan Ports so I think I am out of luck. Seems like a common problem and curious if Netgear is aware of this?