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Orbi RBR50 and Slow WiFi Problems with iOS Devices
I’ve been experience a very strange problem with slow WiFi speeds on my iOS devices for a few months now and was wondering if anyone might be able to point me to something to try to fix it. It seems that the problem started when I updated our iPhones and iPads to iOS 11 and has been ongoing ever since. I have spoken with Apple about the issue, but nothing we’ve tried has helped. Things like turning Airplane mode on and off, resetting network settings, re-setting up the iPad/iPhone as a new device, etc. Here’s what happens. When home, the iOS devices act normally and have a good connection to the Orbi system and get full Internet speed (150 Mbps for my service) all over the house. If we then take the iOS devices out of the house and connect to another WiFi network, such as at work, all is still well. The problem starts when we return home. They connect to the WiFi network just fine, but if I perform a speed test, they will show anywhere from about 1 Mbps to about 25 Mbps connections and will not get any better throughput. Also, while this is happening, if you try to use an application that accesses the Internet, it will experience long delays in accessing the information every few minutes. Once the delay is over, everything works as expected, but at the low, and sometimes very low, connection speeds. No amount of fiddling with the iOS devices will correct the situation; however, through the process of elimination I found that restarting the Orbi router gets everything back to working as expected. I can’t for the life of me figure out what could potentially be causing this odd behavior, but would appreciate any insight that someone may have and would be willing to share. This is becoming more and more annoying as time goes on.Internet Connection Speeds Slow/Degrade Over Time
I recently noticed that my Internet download speeds had slowed down dramatically, from a normal 85 Mbits/sec down to about 2 Mbits/second, so I did some troubleshooting to see what I could find. I first restarted the cable modem to see if that would make a difference, but it did not. The download speeds remained abysmal. I then verified the connection between my iMac and the Orbi system and it showed a connection speed in the range of 540 Mbits/sec, so all looked good there. I clearly had a strong signal from the Orbi router. So, next I rebooted the Orbi router. Once it came back up, I retried the Internet speed test and got good, normal results, i.e. 85 Mbits/sec. Could there be an issue with the Orbi that somehow causes the Internet speed to degrade over time? I have seen a similar issue with other routers before, but I thought that we'd be well past anything like that with the Orbi system. Should I be setting the Orbi up to reboot itself regularly? Is this really necessary? Thanks for any advice that you may have regarding this situation!Speed from 500mbps down to 25mbps
So i just received the Orbi yesterday and have it setup. The good news is, I have full signel all over my house. The bad news is, if I tested the speed via ethernet cable between the rounter and my laptop, I am looking at full speed 500mbps, tested via wireless is about 350 mbps. Placed the satellite on 2/F and it's showing good connection between the rounter and the satellite, speed via ethernet cable somehow dropped to 70mbps, wifi speed via the satellite dropped to 25mbps (sometimes even 16mbps) Is there any reason why the speen could dropped so much? I even got highed speed when I had powerline adpater before switching to Orbi. It is very frustrated since I am buying Orbi to expect full coverage with full speed..... any idea?