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HenrikStor
Aspirant
Jun 19, 2018

R7100LG long ping times - cut out wifi new firmware installed

Funny think this Nighthawk R7100LG

just bought it yesterday

it cuts out wifi - a lot...    ping times are over 1000ms - when card inserted in Huawei router ping is only 70ms

Router software says good connection 4g.  -77db - Led on router says "poor connection" ( blue led) ( my Huawei has fine connection)

tried MTU setting - funny :

          when set to 1500 - ping test suggest 1250

         when set to 1250 - ping test suggest 1000

          when set to 1000 - ping test suggest 700 -   it will NEVER pass a test after MTU is set on router

All channels have been tested - no better result have sniffed net - no interferring channels

Any ideas ?

 

so far I have gone back to my Huawey Speed4G and esternal antenna with good pingtimes - it works,  just wanted to be kind and buying a quality router for the kid - but not this time obviosly.. i read in other forums that Netgear had these issues for a very long time - and just now they thought they made a fix (FW) but seems thay only made it worse

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3 Replies

    • HenrikStor's avatar
      HenrikStor
      Aspirant
      Jul 16, 2018

      Hi

      I already tried that that is one of my problems..

       

      Whenever I find optimal MTU size and set the router to that value - mext tile I rund the test for MTU size - it has changed to a lower size - when I enter that size - it changes again to even lower - and so on until I cige op lowering it...

       

      So  tjanks - but it doesn't work - it is really not this simple...

    • Blanca_O's avatar
      Blanca_O
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Aug 05, 2018

      Hi HenrikStor, 

       

      Do you have QoS enabled? 

       

      Regards, 
      Blanca 
      Community Team