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RBK40 Download Speed Slows Down After 5 Days
I have the RBK40 Router with two RBS20 satellites connected to my home wifi. I'm using it in router mode and not AP mode..Every 5 days my Internet speed drops from around 200mbps to around 40mbps..Th...
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Just wanted to make a quick update on my situation ..I'm on the seventh day and my speeds are staying constant at 217mbps on the router and satellites. This is after I did a factory reset 7 days ago. I will keep watching it and checking the speeds everyday to see if it does it again. I didn't notice my speeds going down until the 20th day the first time it happened, but I wasn't testing it everyday so I don't know when it happened the first time..I will keep this thread updated.
Thanks for letting us know. Hope it keeps working well for you. Enjoy. :smileywink:
Ok I made it to the 15 days and when I checked my speeds last night they were at 40mbps again. 15 days ago I did factory reset and everything has been good until yesterday. Before I did the factory reset it would drop speeds to 40mbps every 5 days or so, but after a factory reset it lasted 15 days before my speeds slowed down again. I did a reboot and my speeds went back up to 217mbps again. The weird thing is that my satellites aren't affected and if I hard wire into the router after my speeds drop I don't see a speed drop. It seems to only be affecting speeds for devices connected wirelessly to the router. I don't know what to do at this point. I don't understand why this happening. I've done all the normal trouble shooting by disabling MU-Mimo, daisy chain, fast roaming, etc..I have my logs sent to me every morning so my logs clear out each day. I see that there is a firmware update, but I'm hesitant to update in case there are bugs worse than what I already have.
Not sure what kind of bugs the new FW has. Only that some are seeing problems and haven't done a factory reset after the FW update. One posted that after he did, the new FW seems to be working well.
You might try the FW update and do a factory reset after it's applied. Or contact NG support and refer them to this thread. Seems like there is something happening on the Orbi routers wifi. Possible it needs to be RMAd.