Opal Slow in Repeater Mode

Technical Support for Routers
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I have just recently purchased and setup an Opal GL-SFT1200) travel router and its download and upload speeds seems very slow versus connecting directly to my Wi-Fi

Using my IPhone 15 Pro within 3 feet of my Bell Canada Router I am getting download speeds of around 80 Mbps and 60 Mbps upload when connected to the Opal Router while when connected directly to the Bell Wi-Fi I am getting 1.0 Gbps and 940 Mbps respectively.

Any help would be appreciated

Regards
Paul Buchanan

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Thanks for the quick response. I don’t believe so but I am confused what you mean by internal wireless networks?

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Within 3 Feet, is the Opal wired into the Bell Canada router when you carry out this test?
Are you testing on 2.4GHz or 5GHz?
What bandwidth have you set?

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Hi,

Thanks for your response. No it’s connected over Wi-Fi I just bought close to the Bell Router to remove any possible physical issues.

Speeds are very similar whether it’s 2.4 or 5GHz.

As I’m operating in Repeater mode I can’t change the Bandwidth which is set to 20MHz on 5GHz, which I assume by default. I can modify 2.4GHz which is currently set 20/40 MHz.

Thank you again for your response

Regards

Paul Buchanan

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3 feet is normally OK. Closer gives major physical issues (receiver saturation).

And Opal can be slow in repeater, results depend on firmware version used

Saturation, like in: Erratic behaviour of Mango (loss of wifi, timeouts and so on) - #20 by bpwl1