Balance 20 WIFI terrible performance compared to Google Wifi

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I have a peplink balance 20 with googles fiber internet using Gr6exxoc router.

The google router works flawlessly, wifi is much more powerful and never a hiccup.

But, if I run the google fiber through peplink, the performance is abysmal. The wifi drops from 800/800 with 20ms latency to like 500/500 60ms latency everything else remaining the same, same location / distance etc.

And, there is lag or latency while gaming on the peplink vs the google router.

Any suggestions to match the performance of the google router?

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Hmmm. The Balance 20 was a great router in its day. However when one looks at its specs one can see it is not a good match for a fast fiber WAN, although the throughput you are seeing exceeds the specifications for your router (good!) I great replacement would be the B-One.

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I apologize, the product i have is the Peplink B-One Gigabit Dual WAN WiFi Router for Wireless Internet | 1GBps Throughput | 2X WAN Port, 4X LAN Port, Dual-Band 2X2 MIMO Wi-Fi.

Which does claim 1 gig wifi. But the google fiber through the peplink wifi is really bad, it has noticable hiccups.

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OK, then I’d suggest submitting a ticket on this and referencing this thread in doing so. Then, post the ticket number here. I’m curious as to what Peplink’s “official” response may be (although I think I know.)

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@Kyle_Watson, I think what you are seeing is the difference between WiFi 6 with 2x2 MIMO (Peplink) and WiFi 6E with 4x4 MIMO (Gr6exxoc). 6E also has a 6GHz channel set in addition to 2.4 and 5 and higher channel bandwidth (eg 160 MHz vs 80 MHz). I also have the B One 5G and see a similar performance drop when connected directly to B One WiFi vs 3rd party WiFi 6E or 7 AP (or even a WiFi 6 AP with 4x4 MIMO like the AP One AX).

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I tested the google fiber wifi and ethernet and was getting 800 / 800.

Using a cat 6 cable from the google fiber modem to the wan 1 into the balance B one, I only can get 500 / 500 on the peplink.

So yeah there just has to be some sort of performance drop on the balance B one. I also noticed that the wifi to wan has TERRRRRIBLE performance. I can only get like 50 up and 20 down rebroadcasting gogles wifi connection that gets 800 / 800 Mbps