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RBK 852 slow wired and Wi-Fi than this time last year
Even with these numbers on my speedtest.net app on my iPhone 11 Pro Max my Wi-Fi still seems slow. Is it me or my ISP?? Once flu season is well passed and it gets warmer I’m going to be calling my Fiber ISP. I just don’t understand this. It’s infuriating! Anything I can do? Wired also gets 930 Mbps+. It was so fast this time last year when it was first installed. Network congestion?? Maybe my ISP is throttling me?? It’s making me pretty upset. It’s a shared fiber connection too I think. Not dedicated. However, I don’t really know that. It’s a small rather local ISP.
I would give anything for it to be as fast as it was when it was first installed. Maybe at that time I was one of the first hooked up in my neighborhood?? Please help. I’m disabled and the internet is my lifeline to the world. My health is poor too. I know I’ve posted far too much on here. It’s just still an ongoing issue. I’ll post this on the Reddit Community as well.
⚫️ Netgear Orbi RBK 852 with 1 RBR 850 and 1 RBS 850
⚫️ Latest Firmware Installed
⚫️ Home Size Around 1,500 Square Feet
⚫️ Router and Satellite are at least 30 feet away from one another.
any other questions, feel free to ask. I just don’t want to factory reset the units as I don’t think it will help. I’m on my second set of Orbi’s in 2 years. I never have done a factory reset on these but I did on my original set. It never helped. I had these issues on my original set as well.
I feel I’m at my wits end!
https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/1axtm7y/this_idiot_needs_help_again_im_sorry
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The post did not mention the speed that the Internet Service Provider (ISP) promised to deliver.
A device connected to the router with Ethernet cable (i.e. 'wired') can deliver almost 1Gigabit speed. There is overhead in Ethernet transmission that makes the maximum possible transmission rate slightly less than "1 Gig". Thus, the reported speed of 930Gbps is as good as it can ever be.
An iPhone connected over WiFi has a theoretical maximum speed that matches the Orbi 850 (i.e. 2.4Gbps). This can be achieved only if:
- The iPhone is within a few feet of the Orbi. (2-3 feet. not 9-10 feet)
- There are absolutely zero other devices using 5G WiFi on the same frequency bands. (not just in your house, but any device close enough to have a signal strength above -80).
- And, of course, the iPhone cannot possibly produce a Speed Test greater than the ISP is delivering.
Perhaps it would be helpful to have more details about how the network "seems slow". The reported speeds and latency numbers are fabulous. Do specific web sites not open quickly? Does video streaming seem to lag or stutter? Do Zoom conference calls break up?
- I’m so sorry I didn’t provide more info. I meant to. When the fiber was first installed yes sites loaded faster. Streaming apps loaded video faster too. Download on wired PC via speedtest.net was around 945 down and up. Now slower. Ping was lower at first too. Same with Wi-Fi. Speeds were faster, download and upload was a larger number and ping was lower. During I’d say the first 6 months of it coming to my area and me getting hooked up the speed was wonderful. Never had a single issue. I don’t know really at all how any of this works. I just know when I first got it it was faster. I’d have wired desktop speeds of like 940 down and 940 up with a ping of 3. Now the upload and download are slightly lower and the ping on the desktop is 5. Likewise on my iPhones and iPads the speed was faster both download and upload and the ping was 5 and now it’s 8-10. Maybe this is normal and I just need to get used to it but it’s hard to wrap my head around all of this.
Oh and before I forget… the ISP Website is
https://www.co-mo.net/residential/internet-for-residential/My guess is that your initial impression is correct. As more customers subscribe to the service, there is more traffic and thus performance suffers..... slightly. I am a bit surprised that the difference is enough for a person to notice. Those of us with ping times above 11ms (compared to your 😎 are green with envy.
Those are typical speeds of a Iphone 11. I get around same or similar speeds with my iPhone 12.
https://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/realistic-speeds-wi-fi-5-and-wi-fi-6
https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html
https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/6250056#zippy=%2Cmobile-devices-wi-fi
