Orbi RBR50 is not supporting 900Mb+- on the WAN to LAN test

First, I wasn't reporting a problem; I was reporting my observations and empirical conclusions. But, to answer your question, like I said in my original post that I had linked to, my PC is wired directly to the Orbi.

Also, please allow me to go off on a tangent here, which is not directed personally at you, but Netgear, since I have been having this email conversation with them over the last 12 hours about resetting my router due to some other actual bug in the firmware I have reported: I will NOT reset my RBR every time there is a problem or need to debug something. I am not a paid Netgear tester who is supposed to do all the work and take all the risk. The last time Netgear support told me to reset & restore my router, here is the answer I gave: "Please let me tell you first that I had been a senior software developer & manager of development teams for the last 30 years, working on a billion dollar a year product used by millions across the world. So, when I look at software problems and talk about them, I come from a place of deep experience. In this particular case, resetting the router should absolutely be NOT necessary. .... Since the firmware update, over the weeks, I have done things like naming all my devices (40-50 of them!), changing certain settings (IPv6 etc.) as well as utilizing reserved IP ranges for certain devices. Even though Netgear would claim that a backup/reset/restore should work fine, given that just a simple [....my reported problem...] is exposing a bug, any bug in the backup/reset/restore codepath would cost me weeks worth of work, and if it didn't work, I would probably throw away my Orbi and go buy Google Wifi. No hardware manufacturer in their right might would routinely recommend a clean reset & restore after a software update. That is like saying an iPhone needs to be backed up & wiped & updated & restored during all iOS updates. ..... If a company doesn't trust its own software to work without a reset, how is it that I am expected to trust it that my weeks worth of detailed settings will be preserved by the same software? It would be trivial for any engineer to restore a lab version of the router with the CFG I attached in a few minutes to see if the problem is obvious, compared to the risk I would be running by following your directions. Orbi's CFG file isn't even a human-readable text file, like GS108Tv3 [8-port Smart Managed Pro switch] backup files are, so that if something goes wrong, I won't know what to set manually, and there are tons, short of taking screenshots of all relevant Orbi settings pages first. Is this really considered good customer experience?"

Sorry to vent/rant. But I am really bothered by this "reset first" approach. It should NEVER be required, let alone REQUESTED as a matter of company policy for every firmware update and every problem report. That is just lazy.

FURRYe38 wrote:

Don't rely on the Speedtest app internal on the RBR. Always test external speedtest app from Ookla. Also factory reset the RBR and setup from scratch. This time do not enable or use the QoS/Speedtest app, Traffic meter or any access controls, Circle or Armor. Then run your external speedtest app.

 

So does your report 900Mbps with external speedtest app thru your Orbi when wired to the back of it?