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Orbi RBR50 is not supporting 900Mb+- on the WAN to LAN test
So I'd like to call NG's attention to the following test results for Orbi RBR50. I'm not seeing anything near 900mbps on the WAN to LAN test. Using both iPerf and Duckwares simple WAN to LAN test pro...
Thanks for your detailed information and results.
Yes, AP mode doesn't seem be be effected and users should see near 900Mbps while in AP mode. It's when the RBR is in router mode is where we see a discrepancy with some users.
UeO wrote:After many hours of reading this forum, my first post.
First I want to thank you, Furrye38, for your advice in many topics. After ever update I reload the same firmware manually, reset all units and reconfigure. Very time consuming.. I still experience disconnects because the RBR50 and/or RBS50s drop WiFi signal. And Orbi is not friendly in maintaining connection with Apple products. Better with Samsung. Maybe I start a topic on that subject later.
Now to your main question of this topic, does RBR50 support 900Mb+?
I have tested it.
My setup is Fiber (1000Mb/1000Mb)>Fritzbox 5490 (router mode, no WiFI)>RBK53 (AP mode, daisy off, v2.3.5.30, wireless backhaul).
The tests are done at a "quiet moment" nothing turned off or disconnected except for the testing PC. So the results are an indication not an absolute number.
Download/ upload speeds Fritzbox>PC (cable Cat5e) in Mbps:
897/858 via speedtestcustom.com
850/600 via fast.com
868/921 via dslreports.com/speedtest
Download/ upload speeds Fritzbox>RBR50 (Cable cat 5e)>PC (cable Cat5e) in Mbps:
816/799 via speedtestcustom.com
950/900 via fast.com
780/923 via dslreports.com/speedtest
I'm sorry for not being able to test the RBR50 in router mode.
FURRYe38 wrote:Yes, AP mode doesn't seem be be effected and users should see near 900Mbps while in AP mode. It's when the RBR is in router mode is where we see a discrepancy with some users.
Just to clarify, my RBR is in the router mode (not AP), connected to Comcast cable modem that is in bridge mode with radios turned off, and all my wired computers on my home network are getting up to 1000 speed even though the Speedtest page on the router's web admin page (I am NOT talking about the iPhone Orbi app's speedtest screen) consistently reports ~500. So, the discrepancy is between what Orbi actually passes through (i.e. whatever you get from the ISP) and what it reports (i.e. its internal speed test results).
I am sure some people are not seeing full ISP speeds, but those all seem to be related to things like having both cable/DSL modem and RBR as router which causes conflicts, or too many radios are on on modems & routers or other devices around that cause interference, or bad cables with low bandwidth capacity, or missing or improper network cable terminations in random places on the network.
Tuna