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Orbi limiting Raspberry Pi Bandwidth
Hi! Im experiencing a really weird issue with my Orbi system. I have latest firmware on my router and satellites (2.5.1.8). My following installation looks like that: - Nokia fiber modem -> Orbi RB...
Thanks for doing the test. I am puzzled about the 40mb results. My Pi 4B gets over 100 with Firefox and almost 100 with Chromium.
Amazon says 15mb will stream 4K video. Netflix wants 25mb. Both are a lot less than 40mb.
It could be there are two issues:
- Why does Kodi buffer on the Pi?
- Why does the Pi get so much less "speed" when connected to the Orbi?
I think the problem is some QoS hidden features on the Orbi system. Ill try to switch off the two satellites and try again to see if a get another result.
I get buffer issues just sometimes, but when it happened, it does every 5 seconds...
I had another "weird" issue that was isolated. I got my IPTV decoder (From my ISP) to freeze every 2-3 minutes. Problem was on one of my computers ethernet card and "Wake on lan". It must be disabled to get my IPTV box working as normal.
So... this is the second weird problem with my Orbi system and sure i need to do again a step-by-step connecting just the Pi and one by one the other devices.
Ill try when i arrive at home today :)
The situation with Orbi and QoS is somewhat of a mystery. When Orbi first shipped, some people remember it having a menu entry for QoS. There no longer is. When I dump the Orbi parameters (over 1,300), there are bunches of entries with "qos" in the names. It appears that this is based on the port numbers used by specific internet video games. (There seem to be 18 "rules".) As far as I can tell, there is no concept of QoS by device (MAC or IP). I have a suspicion that QoS may be viewed as "unnecessary in this day of gigabit ISP speeds". When devices are competing for 10 mb of internet, QoS is a powerful tool.
(Confession: I know too little about QoS to do anything more than observe mysteries.)
- Finally i have returned the pi4 and changed to a Xiaomi Mi BOX S. Tomorrow ill get an usb-gigabit adaptor, but toda, with wifi... I got the same speed! Around 40-60Mb... The same as my other Pi3 đ€Ł
My mobile phone gets 380Mb at the same distance than the Mi Box. Definetly, the Orbi router is managing something really bad.
Ill update situation Tomorrow when i get the usb-gigabit adapter.Sorry the Raspberry Pi 4B is no longer available. Just did what I should have done before and searched for "raspberry pi speed test".
Installed "speedtest-cli", a command line program which uses the Speedtest.com API's.
My Raspberry Pi 4B reports 230mbs, which is almost exactly what my Windows desktop & Android devices report. (Would love to learn how a Pi works with a 500mbs internet link.)
So my position remains: the Orbi does not discriminate against the Raspberry Pi on internet downloads.
That does not mean to say that a Raspberry Pi 4B is adequate for all internet steaming applications. Remember that Firefox and Chromium reported WAY less throughput on my Pi 4B than the command line speedtest-cli does. In my case, the combination of using VNC to provide the graphic interface for Chromium/Firefox and all the "video business" going on with Firefox could eat up a lot of processor power.