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silverdawn
Aspirant
Jul 01, 2018

Orbi Ethernet ports

Hello, I recently had Spectrum (Timewarner cable) come out to the house to adress network connectivity issues.  I should be pulling in over 400Mbps and I am getting that through to my Arris SB6190 ...
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varase
Guide
Jul 02, 2018

I think what he's saying is not that the ethernet ports negotiate at a slower speed, but that he gets less bandwidth (actual data transfer speed) through the LAN ports than through wireless.

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silverdawn
Aspirant
Jul 03, 2018

Correct, I am getting around 100Mbps through the ethernet ports and using Wireless AC I am getting 380Mbps.  The ethernet ports should be pulling up to 1Gbps.  I am not asking for that, but an external bandwidth test should at least be hitting 400+ when there are no physical restrictions going out which was proven with the other tests.