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Orbi AX6000 using Satellite with wired connection - Slower than Wifi connection?
Hello. I had a quick question. I connected ethernet cable to the satellite Orbi unit RBS850, and conencted ethernet to laptop. I did notice that when running speed test with laptop connected via e...
I did some further testing last night and conencted ethernet wire directly to RBR850 (router).
I have a desktop PC connected also with ethernet to router.
Funny enough, desktop PC gives me full speed (about 1Gbps, but my laptop hardwired caps out at about 100Mbps)...
So i suspect laptop ethernet adapter hardware limitation,.
Strange. I will try to test with other devices connected via ethernet to router and satellite to see if I can conclude issue with laptop ethernet adaptor...
Not sure what OS you are running. With Linux you can check the connected rate of your device with the ethtool command.
for example:
ethtool eth0 | grep -i speed
I'm not sure what the equivalent is for windows. Maybe you can see the connection speed in device manager?