@yves_b Sorry for the late reply. I was installing wired backhaul via MoCA v2.5.

I also disabled QoS in my system.

My laptop is brand new, about two weeks old -- Windows 11, I5, 16gb RAM. Network shows I am connected by 5 GHz with aggregated link speed 1729 receive, 1729 transmit, Mbps. Which would give throughput of about 210 MB/sec.

Yet iperf3 shows I am getting in the 200 Mbps range, quite a bit lower than the 1700 or so the network seems capable of.

When transferring a 2gb file via SMB, I'm getting about 40 MB/s (320mbps), better than the iperf test, but still not nearly what I would expect.

The target machine is an Unraid server connected to the Deco device by Cat6, with a gigabit NIC writing to an SSD.

  @Zudnic The MoCa link could be the limiting factor.  Do you have the same result directly connected to the main Deco?

  @yves_b When both devices are connected to the base Deco via cat6:

... there's the gigabet speeds!

When laptop is connected to base station by wifi 5:

The backhaul isn't the problem, this is consistent with speeds I was getting with the wireless backhaul in my original posts.

  @yves_b For what it's worth, here are two tests, laptop to laptop, both on wifi -

With wired backhaul enabled:

With wired backhaul DISabled (meaning, OOTB wireless backhaul)