I've got the following strange behaviour on my Orbi Wifi 6 router. It's and RBR250 with 2 sattellites.
My internet access is more or less 1Gb/s, for LAN. The wifi close to the ISP router is about half that, usually 450-550 Mb/s.
I've got one of my ISP's WIFI6 satellite upstairs and the wifi there is about half of that again (thick walls, old house), so about 250K.
So that's plenty enough to stream, play, etc... but I replaced all this with Orbis. I removed the wifi from my ISP router which, as expected, deactivated the ISP's satelite.
I renamed the Orbi wifi to the old SSID and put the same password. So far so good, all my stuff reconneted flawlessly, including the Home Assistant smart home stuff.
Now, the weird part:
The wifi rate I get, is nowhere near what Orbi advertises. Because the LAN speed is 1Gb, I'd expect something similar fot the Orbi wifi, but it's more close to what I normally get, slightly better (350 Mb close to my TV on the laptop, 6 meters away from the router, 2 meters away from the satellite 1; the Xbox console gets 220 Mb). Upstairs, close to Sat 2, I get about 350-400mb, which is also slightly better than with the ISP Wifi 6 Sat (used to be 250 Mb). In the bedroom, like 5 meters away, seperated by a thick wall but there's an opening in it, It's down to 250 Mb.
So is this normal ? I just bought them so I'm really considering sending them back and just buying a regular Wifi6 satelitte whoch will give me 250 Mb upstairs anyway.
Thanks !
So OK, maybe not 1 Gb wifi, but 800 Mb would be nice.
Netgear has set up a community forum specifically for the Orbi AX (WiFi 6) products. Most of the people who watch that forum are more likely to have experience with Orbi AX and know how to work it better than those of us who follow this "general Orbi" forum. Might be more likely to find someone who has a solution if the question is posted there: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax
