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dldeuce
Aspirant
Apr 13, 2019

RBR50 Intermittent bandwidth cap for PC only

I have a RBR50 Orbi network and a 185Mbps internet connection.  Occasionally, I'll see poor performance on my win10 PC on wireless, and I'll do an Inernet speed test to see that I'm capped at 10, 30,...
ekhalil's avatar
ekhalil
Master
Apr 14, 2019

I would guess that when you have bad bandwidth you would be connected to a disturbed 2.4 GHz channel. When disconnecting and reconnecting or rebooting Orbi the wireless card will always prefer 5 GHz channel and that's why things get better.

I'd do a wireless scan and select a 2.4 GHz channel that is least used by the surrounding and set it as the 2.4 GHz channel.

Do the same also for the 5 GHz channel.

dldeuce's avatar
dldeuce
Aspirant
Apr 15, 2019

Sounds plausible, but I don't understand how to do any of that.

  • ekhalil's avatar
    ekhalil
    Master
    Apr 15, 2019
    You need to use a wifi scanning software on your computer or phone. What OS do you have on a computer or phone at home so we can recommend suitable apps?
    • WRSORBI's avatar
      WRSORBI
      Luminary
      Apr 16, 2019

      This may or may not be the issue but I had a similar issue that I thought was the router perfoming capping but it turned out to be my Killer Wireless Adapter Control Center that was performing 'load balancing'.  Deinstalled the Killer Control Center and issue was resolved.   

    • Blanca_O's avatar
      Blanca_O
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Apr 17, 2019

      WRSORBI, thank you for sharing this information. This can be helpful to other users who has this issue. 

       

      dldeuce - Were you able to try the recommendation provided by ekhalil? 

       

      Regards, 
      Blanca 
      Community Team

    • dldeuce's avatar
      dldeuce
      Aspirant
      Apr 18, 2019

      I have Win10 and an iphone