I recently bought Orbi AC3000 Tri Band for my house. I previously had google wifi but moved over to Orbi as friends suggested higher throughout. I have a 1gb comcast line- With ethernet cable, I get upto 950 MPBS (on Arris sb8200) but with Orbi, I only get 450 MBPS tops. Can someone guide here?
Model: RBK50| Orbi AC3000 High-Performance Tri-Band WiFi System
Are you testing with a ethernet connected PC with the Orbi. Don't use wireless. Wireless speeds on client side hw varies and some device don't support 900+- speeds. You'll need to check with the devices Mfr to see what actual thruput speeds they support. Most mobile devices don't support much over 400-500Mb.
My mac does not have an ethernet port unfortunately. Is there anyway I can change the band width to 5ghz only? Also, thank you for the clear explanation about IOS.
Model: RBK50| Orbi AC3000 High-Performance Tri-Band WiFi System
Does the Mac Book show being connected on 2.4 or 5Ghz. I believe if you hold down on the Option key on the keyboard then select the wifi icon on the top tool bar, this will show you which freqency your connected too.
Orbi is set up to autmatically connect devices to the best frequency automatically. Orbi doesn't allow for using of separate SSIDs between the radios. This would effect how the mesh system works.
The best you can realisticly hope to achieve over WiFI with the Orbi is in the ballpark of 500-600 Mbps, and that will vary depending on how "clean" your WiFi environment is. It also assumed there are no upstream bottlenecks.
