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Sudden wireless devices speed drop
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...
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.
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
What modem/gateway do you have?
Are you using any parental controls/qos/Armor?
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.
So the internet is shared between everyone?
It could be a form of QoS on the switch if everyone is sharing the connection.
Or it could be other users saturating the bandwidth.