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What is the highest speed that the Orbi's can handle?
Good Day All!
I have the Orbi Mesh Router. The Orbi AC2200 and I have the main router in the living room and a Satelite down in the basement. I have Verizon Fios package that's supposed to give...
I figured out how to replace my FIOS router with the Orbi Router and the speeds are more in line but crazy fast since I only pay $29.99 for 100/100MBPS up/down. I didn't know that you could just unplug the ethernet cable from the FIOS router and connect it to the Orbi and it would work right away. I thought you had to go through configurations and make a whole bunch of changes but I guess not and I guess Verizon Tech's have been lying to me for over 10 yrs now. First I tried to turn off the WiFi on the FIOS router and I ran a test and it was fast. Then I unplugged the ethernet from the FIOS router and plugged it into the Orbi and viola, instant internet. No configurations or anything. Now I have to give my mom and dad my router password. Will the additional 4 device cause me to slow down even more? I guess I don't have to pay for anyone to show me how to re-route my router so the Orbi would work as my main router. I'm thinking maybe I should get another satellite and put it upstairs so it won't slow the network down. What do you guys think? I will have a total of about 15 devices connected between the Orbi base station and the Sattelite. Do you guys think the two routers I have now are sufficient or should I get another satellite just to be sure?
Attached is the speed I got sitting right on top of the satellite router that I have right now with 6 devices connected to it.
Is there a reason why Orbi made their routers so BIG? I mean it doesn't give more more signal or anything bc the satellite seems to be holding well and it's just a wall plug in and 1/4 of the size of the base router. I'm thinking of purchasing another base router and placing it upstairs. Should I get another wall plug in or a regular Orbi size router. We will have about 5 devices upstairs and connected to the base station. The other 5 are connected to my satellite that I have downstairs. What do you guys think? Please let me know. Thanks in advance!
Well, few things for ya:
Orbis are big, because they have big antennas. This is so you can get better coverage and speed.
Second (as mentioned) don’t blame the Orbi for your slower speeds, it’s more the fault of the wireless radios in your devices. Fastest speeds over WiFi are ~550Mbps. If you really want to see that you’re getting the 1Gbps that you pay for, connect an Ethernet cable to the back of your Orbi router, and plug into a PC or laptop with a 1Gbps Ethernet connection. Then you’ll see 900+Mbps via a Speedtest.
turns2stone wrote:
Well, few things for ya:
Orbis are big, because they have big antennas. This is so you can get better coverage and speed.
Second (as mentioned) don’t blame the Orbi for your slower speeds, it’s more the fault of the wireless radios in your devices. Fastest speeds over WiFi are ~550Mbps. If you really want to see that you’re getting the 1Gbps that you pay for, connect an Ethernet cable to the back of your Orbi router, and plug into a PC or laptop with a 1Gbps Ethernet connection. Then you’ll see 900+Mbps via a Speedtest.
What's the point of having 1GBPS plan if the Orbi can not handle it via WIFI. It seems to be pretty pointless to me. When I had the 1GBPS plan, I used for 1 full day and the speedtests weren't even par and the actual speeds running webpages was not that much faster than the 100/100mbps plan that I had. I might had to wait a millisecond more for the page to load but I'm ok with that bc it wasn't like boom, the webpages were opening right after I click on the link. That made no sense to me and it didn't justify the cost of the plan. If the Orbi's are limited on WIFI then there's no point, I'd be wasting my money. I haven't used an ethernet cord to connect to our WIFI since 2012 and I don't plan on tethering it now. I would have to have a really long ethernet cable and wire it all the way down to the basement bc that's where my office is setup and I didn't want to do that bc any visitor would come over and see the yellow ethernet cable being fed downstairs and into the basement and it would just look ugly and I doubt that setup would get me 1GBPS speeds. It may get me 900 or so but I doubt it would ever get me the full 1GBPS plan that I would pay for so back to the old plan it is and it's been running really smoothly. Thanks for all your help and your comments. You guys really helped me shed some light on all my problems with the WIFI setup in my home.
While an individual client device may not be able to max out a 1 Gb link, the aggregate of multiple clients connected at the same time do have the ability to saturate the link. So yeah, if you only care about 1 client device at a time, then maybe 1 Gb is overkill for your needs. However, the speeds I get with 1 Gb service far exceed anything I was getting on the lower tiers, so I'm quite happy with it.
speedtest.xfinity.com
www.dslreports.com/speedtest/
The tests above were done with a Macbook Pro, while connected to an Orbi RBS50 satellite.