Sudden wireless devices speed drop

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Hi all,Background: I have a 1Gb/s connection with ethernet straight into my apartment. The apartment is very old and has thick, brick walls and is a stupid shape, so I got an RBR750 and satellite, set it all up with a wireless backhaul as I didn't want to drill through a bunch of walls and everything was good.&nbsp;Issue: In the last few weeks all wireless devices have dropped their connection speed from &gt;700mb/s to ~300 to 400mb/s. The devices are Win10, Win11, ChromeOS, IOS and Android. Plugging a device into the RBR with ethernet gets a good result of ~900mb/s. The very weird thing is that I have a NAS connected to the satellite (wireless backhaul) with ethernet and that gets &gt; 750mb/s when downloading.What could be causing this?Thanks for any help or pointers.

plemans · Answer

Wireless is sensitive to distance and building materials. 5ghz drops of much quicker than 2.4ghz. Plus brick will block its signal quite a bit. that 300-400mbps is about reasonable unless you're sitting right next to the router/satellite without intererence.&nbsp;

_Pigpen · Answer

Thanks for the reply.The speed drop is 'everywhere' whether I am next to the router or satellite or a distance away. I do realise I am beeing 'greedy' and that the speed is fine for every day use. It's just bugging me 🙂Thanks again

plemans · Answer

What modem/gateway do you have?&nbsp;
Are you using any parental controls/qos/Armor?

_Pigpen · Answer

There is no modem in the apartment. There is fibre to the building and ethernet from a switch to each apartment. Plugging straight into the ethernet port, or into the RBR with ethernet gets expected results of ~900mb/s. Armor is enabled. WMM is enabled on both bands.

plemans · Answer

So the internet is shared between everyone?&nbsp;
It could be a form of QoS on the switch if everyone is sharing the connection.&nbsp;
Or it could be other users saturating the bandwidth.&nbsp;

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