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RBR40 wired to quantum FiOS only getting half speed download
I recently setup a new orbi RBR40 router and two rbs20 satellites. I have the orbi router wired to my FiOS quantum gateway. The FiOS wireless radios are disabled and I have set the orbi to AP mode. Th...
I had reported a gist of this before, on another thread, but here it is again, with way more structured detail. I really do believe this is a bug with the internal Speedtest. Here is why.
Setup I created this morning: Directly connected my PC to Orbi Router RBR50v2's LAN port. There isn't much of a network activity going on in my house, nor in the small neighborhood I live in, that might overload either the router on my network or the Comcast capacity coming into the neighborhood (since cable internet is basically shared by your neighbors, unlike phone-based internet that is a direct dedicated line between you and the phone company).
- My service I am paying for: Comcast 1000/40
- Running internal SpeedTest app on Orbi with latest firmware: 516/42
- Running latest SpeedTest Win10 app on the latest Win10 PC against COMCAST.COM server: 511/54
- Running latest SpeedTest Win10 app on the latest Win10 PC against SPEEDTEST.NET server: 930/43
- Running in the latest Chrome Browser on the latest Win10 PC the Netflix-powered FAST.COM: 1.1/39
So, my PC is certainly able to see WIRED 1000/40 speeds when it is connected to the right internet servers. However, testing against certain servers straight from my PC is sub-1000, and the internal SpeedTest app on the Orbi is definitely stuck at reporting ~500 which is:
- either because it has a bug in testing (so, it detects half the speed) or
- because it has a bug in reporting (so, it reports half of what it found) or
- because it is picking a slow server to run against (so, the test server it uses is limited to 500).
I am attaching screenshots of my tests so that there is no confusion.
Tuna
So it seems that the orbi speed test is indeed not accurate. I borrowed a usb-c to Ethernet adapter and ran speed tests with my pixel 2 (I know it's not ideal) wired to my orbi router and using various speed tests/servers and I was getting download speeds pretty consistently in the 800 range. I would imagine using laptop I would see even higher speed but nonetheless 800 is much better than I was seeing on the orbi app. Thank you to all who posted.
Thanks for letting us know. Glad the speed is there.
Enjoy.
Derek1118 wrote:
So it seems that the orbi speed test is indeed not accurate. I borrowed a usb-c to Ethernet adapter and ran speed tests with my pixel 2 (I know it's not ideal) wired to my orbi router and using various speed tests/servers and I was getting download speeds pretty consistently in the 800 range. I would imagine using laptop I would see even higher speed but nonetheless 800 is much better than I was seeing on the orbi app. Thank you to all who posted.