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RBK852/Orbi Wifi6 Slow backhaul
Got the new RBK852/Orbi Wifi 6 system today from BB. Getting it up and running was easy. Started testing speeds and realized that the speed between the satellite and the router is very low. The satel...
I see this as well, internally on the network between Router and Satellite. When connected to the Satellite via WiFi, I can pull a solid 350Mbit/sec externally, so the Backhaul seems fine.
But when transferring within my network, I get very slow speeds for some reason between devices connected to my Router and Satellite. Uploading to a Synology box (1000mbit wired to Satellite) from a MacBook Pro (1300 tx to Router), I'm seeing like absurd 50Mbit speeds.
Hopefully it's just a firmware problem they can fix...
Ignore my previous post. I was actually able to resolve this and am seeing good speeds now.
Can't seem to find a way to delete or edit posts here.
I wish it were something of note related to Orbi AX settings, but it was stupid: It was a bad ethernet cable to the machine connected to the Satellite. It was registering properly as gigabit full-duplex, and upstream to the machine was fine, but downstream must have been error correcting. Because it was working otherwise, I unfortunately blamed the Orbi until I could do more testing.
Replaced the cable and things sped right back up again. With my laptop wired to the Orbi, I can now get close to Gigabit transfer speeds. Wireless AC (MBP isn't AX yet), I get around 500-600Mbit now across the Orbi backhaul (Router to Satellite) to the server, which isn't bad all things considered...
My Orbis are also 2 floors apart through floors with radiant heating, so it's pretty impressive.
This is with the 3.1.6 firmware (which was posted live briefly but is now apparently beta?).
How are the speeds with you connect your NAS to the RBR?
NateIU wrote:I see this as well, internally on the network between Router and Satellite. When connected to the Satellite via WiFi, I can pull a solid 350Mbit/sec externally, so the Backhaul seems fine.
But when transferring within my network, I get very slow speeds for some reason between devices connected to my Router and Satellite. Uploading to a Synology box (1000mbit wired to Satellite) from a MacBook Pro (1300 tx to Router), I'm seeing like absurd 50Mbit speeds.
Hopefully it's just a firmware problem they can fix...
