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About hmartone
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07-13-2018
08-18-2018
hmartone
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07-31-2018
11:01 AM
Orbi RBK50 (router + 1 full size satellite) is working well for my needs.
https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Orbi-Home-System-RBK50/dp/B01K4CZOBS
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07-29-2018
03:59 PM
@RobertWy wrote:
In the back bedroom I'm getting ~250.
via your Xfinity wifi or the Orbi?
I am using an Orbi system as well, and get a solid 250+ throughout my house. Via the Xpods, I got 250 near the gateway, but that dropped to 10-60 via the pods.
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07-26-2018
09:32 AM
I see lots of negative reports, but understand help forums will be skewed toward these. I am interested in if anyone is having a good experience with the xpods? What was your speed before, and what speeds are you seeing now away from your primary router where the xpods are located?
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07-23-2018
11:36 AM
Xfinity wanted to bill me $15 to ship an XG4 box. LOL
They ended up shipping it for free.
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07-20-2018
02:46 PM
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My plan is just to put the Xfinity modem in bridge mode once I'm sure everything is stable. This will essentially turn off the wifi router in the Xfinity router. I have port 1 on the Xfinity gateway going directly into my Orbi router, when then connects to an ethernet switch going to other locations and devices in my house. I don't even have the ethernet backhaul set up on the Orbi yet, as there is really no additional wifi speed to be gained at this point. The Orbi has been rock solid with no dropped connections and solid speed. I'm giving it a few more days until I put the gateway into bridge mode as I try to have as few moving pieces at a time when testing my network.
I'm no expert, however I don't see any reason why you couldn't set up an Orbi (or other system) with the same SSID as your Xfinity gateway. However they wouldn't optimize and you may have an issue with a device defaulting to a weaker AP (for instance if you are far away from the Xfinity gateway. With the thorough coverage I am getting from the Orib I will simply kill the Xfinity wigi, or ignore that network.
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07-19-2018
08:53 PM
1 Kudo
Welp, the worthless xpods went back. Xfinity was not willing or able to help. I've never seen worse coordination among channels (phone, stores, forum). It's as if none of the people work for the same company.
I got the Orbi system setup and installed in a snap. Only 2 units (router & satillite) blanked my 4 story home with a warm blanket of consistently 250+mbps wifi (I was getting as low as 20 with the xpods).
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07-16-2018
10:50 AM
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It would be great to hear from someone competent at Xfinity, as all I have received is conflicting or straight up ignorant advice.
After 72 hours for the pods to "optimize" preformance has not improved at all. Actually the wifi speeds I am getting in some areas are slower with the pods.
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07-13-2018
10:13 AM
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I live in a 2,000 square foot townhouse that is split up over 4 levels. My wifi coverage has always been just OK which was mitigated by the fact that I do have ethernet hardwired to each level of the house. Improving wifi has always been on the to do list. Xfinity recently contacted me to ask if I wanted faster speeds for the same price under my current Blast tier. They sent me a new router to self install. Several weeks later, lots of headaches, wasted calls with incompetent support staff and trips to Xfinity stores, I finally have the network functional. However I am not pleased with the performance and am a now obsessed with getting it up to par given the time invested in this.
The Good: speeds via hard wired connections are consistently 250 mbps+ via all hard wired connections throughout the house (upload speed averages 11-12 mbps but I'm not sure what expectations should be there. IF in the immediate vicinity of the router wifi speeds are comparable if a touch below this.
The Bad: wifi speeds away from the router are very inconsistent, topping out at 30 mbps and sometimes much slower. Xfinity told me that I needed to buy their xFi pods and my problems would be solved. I purchased and installed 3 pods, and performance is only slightly improved. The areas with the worst performance (sub 10 mbps) have been stabilized and slightly improved, but overall the performance is still inconsistent and slow (some areas may honestly be slower).
The rep at the Xfinity store told me that as I had wired ethernet, I could plug that into the pods and get fast performance throughout my house. However in reading through these forums it seems that ethernet backhaul is specifically NOT supported by xfinity for some reason. I have not yet tried to test this as I am giving the pods a few days to optimize and see what does for performance before monkeying around more. However I have a hard time imagining significant improvements.
My question is where to go from here? Is there a solution I am missing via Xfinity? My next move may be to return the pods, buy a 3rd party system that supports ethernet backhaul (such as Orbi) and just put the Xfinity router into bridge mode. I'd love to simplify and stay with the Xfinity only system, however my household is demanding more and better wifi performance. The pods just aren't preforming as advertised.
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