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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,...
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.   

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    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

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    dldeuce
    Aspirant
    Apr 18, 2019

    I have Win10 and an iphone