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I suspect that this is not a ROS problem. This can be simply tested: Just take your driver code and don't do anything ROS related. You'll need to check the frequency yourself manually and see the result. Depending on the result you can look further.

The data rate with one sensor connected seems 4x data rate with 4 sensors, so there seems to be some general bottleneck.

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