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DonMacGregor
Nov 06, 2025Aspirant
RBR750 Throttling WiFi to 100mbps on Gigabit Connection
I hope someone can provide some insight. I currently have an Orbi mesh system set up in my house. One RBR750 router, and 3 RBS750 satellites. The RBR750 is connected to a Nokia XS-2426X-A gigabi...
CrimpOn
Nov 07, 2025Guru - Experienced User
One additional consideration is how important the Orbi "router features" are. When the ISP installs a router instead of a simple modem or fiber Optical Network Terminator (ONT), this creates a situation known as a "Double NAT". i.e. the ISP router uses the public IP address and creates a Local Area Network (LAN), hiding the local IP addresses from the internet using Network Address Translation (NAT). The customer router does the same thing. i.e. it accepts one private IP address from the ISP router and creates its own private address LAN, hiding those IP addresses with NAT.
This "Double NAT" can create all sorts of awkward situations, and can dramatically interfere with specific network applications. (Internet search for "double NAT" will provide examples.)
The obvious way to deal with a Double NAT is to get rid of one of the routers. either
- Put the ISP device into "Bridge Mode" (sometimes called "Passthrough Mode"), thus giving up ALL of its router functions.
This keeps the customer router as the primary routing device, creating one private LAN, assigning IP addresses, and preserving all of the "router functions" of the customer router.
In the case of Orbi, that would include the options to enable Bitdefender Armor, Smart Parental Controls, etc. - Keep the ISP device as the router and put the customer device into "Access Point" (AP) mode. This leaves the ISP router in charge of "router stuff" (creating IP addresses, regulating network access, etc.) and leaves the customer router providing WiFi and network access.
StephenB
Nov 07, 2025Guru - Experienced User
CrimpOn wrote:One additional consideration is how important the Orbi "router features" are.
DonMacGregor - if you want to use both the Nokia and the Orbi as routers (connecting client devices to both witht he Orbi in router mode), then you should take the Nokia out of bridge mode.
Personally I do that because I want some features in the Orbi that my ISP router doesn't have. But my ISP router is required for my TV set top boxes (and cannot be in bridge mode for that to work). So I double-route (and therefore have double-NAT).
This works ok for me, as the devices connected to my ISP router don't need to reach anything behind the Orbi.