Nighthawk R7000 Slow Download Speeds
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Also having slow wifi problems on latest firmware. wired speeds are fine. I have Gig Fiber but on Wifi, even right next to the router, I now only get 25-30Mbps. I previously was getting 200+Mbps in the same location on the same device.
During testing, I also saw some super slow Wi-Fi speeds. I was changing channels and letting the radios restart several times in succession between tests. I saw some horrible wireless performance (less than a megabit). Using Wi-Fi Analyzer I finally got proper channel selection and things fell right into place. I found that it was better to restart the router after making a channel change. So I would change a channel, let the radios restart, then do a reboot, then test speeds again. I'm provisioned for 280/10 and get 300/12 over eithernet. I get about 285 down on Wi-Fi. Very respectable performance and stable. No issues with 4k streaming either.
I have an AC wireless adapter: the Asus USB AC56. Still works fine on 2.4 GHz, but that's not the point of having it. Oh, and my upload speeds have not been affected. They remain at 10 Mb or faster. I reinstalled it, but 5 GHz was still slow, if it could connect at all.
Ok so I have FIOS 500/500 plan. The modem is installed in my garage. From there the main internet line is in my office connected to my netgear x6s router.Key: 500mbps = 59.6 MB/second download speedsWhen I download games I get 25-30MB/second, which seemed off. So I unplugged my netgear router and tried the default router they gave me when they installed my service. All of sudden 50-60MB/seconds on BattleNet. Unplugged and replugged both router and did the test 3 times and same result. So went to the store bought and $300 netgear router (returned it today) and same result, slow speeds. So what the heck is going on?
So, Netduma. I did what you guys told me. I reached out to Netgear's support since you said it was a hardware problem, and in no way could be DumaOS' fault. They couldn't find a fix to my slow speeds problem. So they sent me a new replacement XR500, and I sent the old one back. I still am receiving barely 200 Mbps download, while my upload is fine. I see the speeds jump up to where they should be, and then they just shoot right back down. I'm supposed to be getting 500 Mbps down, and 50 Mbps up. I have tried literally everything I could think of to fix this. Disabling QoS entirely, changing my mac address, disabling WiFi features, factory resetting from the UI, factory resetting from the button on the back of the device, switching to an old firmware, reverting back to a new firmware. Any combination you can think of, I've tried. I've read other forums of people with a similar problem to me. Which leads me to believe that this can't just be an isolated incident. I've have been trying everything I could for weeks now. I am at a loss on what to do from here. I need help.
NOTE: Services like speedtest.net are not a good representation for throttling due to CPU. In many cases where speedtest.net will show full Gigabit speeds, once download of 10GB+ files is initialized the CPU will be saturated and speed will slow down. A more representative test is to initiate a large download (for example a 20GB+ game on Steam or Epic stores). Or a Torrent download of a large Linux ISO. In all cases ensure that the download is capable of maxing out your bandwidth.
Stability:There have been observations of poor stability with ddwrt on r7000 (observed with builds from June 2022). Various users reported kernel crashes and reboots within a week or two of uptime. It is possible that the issue is with SFE/CTF, but without them gigabit speeds are impossible. Until ddwrt stability improves there are 3 solutions:
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