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Tbreneau
Aspirant
Jul 07, 2019

Orbi RBR-50 internal speed check with modem half the ISP speed

I have a 1Gig service from Xfinity and at their modem I verified speed of 999, however when checking speed of same connection between my Orbi Router and the Xfinity modem via o Netgear internal Orbi R...
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Tbreneau
Aspirant
Jul 07, 2019
As Stated in original post I did and in bridge AP mode as well no effect as well in DMZ with wireless turned off. Still the same low link speed between the Otni RBR50 router and the Xfinity CGM4149COM cable modem. Again if I direct connect a pc to the modem I get full speed, when I plug orbi into same port the router to modem the orbi internal speed test shows less than half the speed being supplied. Latest Firmware update 2.3.1.60.
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FURRYe38
Guru
Jul 07, 2019

While the modem is in bridged mode, factory reset the RBR and it up from scratch. Be sure to not enabled the QoS speedtest, traffic meter or access controls. With a wired PC, test the speed. 

 

My testing with v60 on RBR50 is not seeing much over 300Mbps and think there is a problem with the WAN to LAN speeds. 

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    Tbreneau
    Aspirant
    Jul 07, 2019
    Same here there is a problem
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        tuna_ertemalp
        Luminary
        Jul 13, 2019

        Just as an added voice to the thread: I am on 1G/40M service from Xfinity, too, with an RBR50v2, running 2.3.1.60, initially set up having been connected for the first time to the cable modem AFTER that NEW Docsis 3.1 Xfinity modem was un-shrinkwrapped and set to bridge mode with all radios/SSIDs turned off by the Xfinity folk. And, the internal Speedtest of the router is consistently at about 510/40.

         

        Now, here is the kicker: The wired LAN output from that RBR50v2 goes into a gig switch, which goes into another gig switch, and that goes into my PC running Win10. And, using the Speedtest Windows app (not the website), against Comcast or Speedtest servers around Seattle. When running against Speedtest server, I get 900/50. When running against Comcast server, I get 480/40. Wut?


        So, I would be very interested in hearing what the OP hears from NG. I am wondering if these results depend on the test server, or if there is a math error in the way the router's numbers are dislayed. Consistently "half" the max speed seems a bit too... ...coincidental.

         

        Tuna