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Orbi 870 WAN performance
Hi Netgear team, I’ve recently purchased the Orbi 870 system, primarily due to its advertised support for 10Gbps WAN connections. I’m currently on a 10Gbps fibre plan and have the Orbi connected ...
Unfortunately, when running the speedtest from the router itself does not tell you what Speedtest server it selected - easily. So you really don't know if you are using the same exact server when running the Ookla speedtest natively. BUT, you can identify the server selected with a bit of work.
Start a debug session from the router in a browser. (<router ip address>/debug.htm) then once the debug page comes us, click on the "Start Capture" button.
Once the capture starts (the page will refresh with the "Start Capture" greyed out - go back to the router admin screen (<router ip address>/start.htm, click on "Advanced" tab, "Setup", and then "Speedtest". Click on "Test Speed" and let the speedtest run. Once the speedtest completes, go back to the debug page (<router ip address>/debug.htm and click on "Save Debug File" and let it write the debug log. It should save it where your default browser downloads go.
Once it has saved it, you can close out the debug session.
Open up the debug_log.zip file (by double clicking on it) (this is based on a windows setup, use whatever you have if not windows based) - and you should see a test file called speedtest_result.txt.
You can save that off, or just open it up in a text file viewer and it will tell you what speedtest servers it considered using, which on it selected, and also show you the various test results (ping times, upload speeds, download speeds) as it ran through the speedtest data streams.
You can at least find out what server it selected to see if you are testing against the same one as the standalone OOKLA tests, and also be able to see if you had some drops of speed during the tests which at least gives NG something to look at (like maybe the router can not handle 10G steady streams).
(ETA) - I sure which NG added server information to the Speedtest Results page like they provide with some other NG products. It's something that has been asked for for several years now. The data is present/available - NG just needs to add it to the page.