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Slow internet with ip passthrough mode on MR5200 (M5 - 5G device)
I am testing a IP Passthrough mode on the Netgear M5. It limits the speed of the connection to ~200Mbps when enabled. When I revert to normal (router) mode and double-nat, the connection speed is 50...
Strange behavior can you verify if the slower Throughput rate from the MR5 end or the router connected to it.
- Both - I connected it directly to the ethernet port (of two different devices) for testing.
And after the last firmware update, passthrough mode stopped working altogether.- Extremely disappointing, they killed the option rather than fixing it. Had high hopes for this 5G router.
Any feedback from support? - I’m facing the same issue with MR5100 NTGX55_10.12.05.00 FW from Zain Kuwait. IP Passthrough disables the internet and I gonna return the unit as this is the only reason I got it in the first place.
In router GUI dashboard, it shows that Zain KW(5G) Not connected.
Netgear should fix this ASAP as this is one of the main advantages to make me choose Netgear over Huawei
Although this is a 5g cellular, the router is only 1g. So the input can be 5g, but the output is 1g. Unfortunately this model does not have a 10g lan or sfp+port, so you are limited to getting less than 1g speeds unless you can use wifi. I think, netgear missed the point of having the 5g cellular with 1g ethernet that limit some users who rely on wired connections.
Cheers,
Madura
Ethernet connection is fine, I have gotten stable speeds of 800-900mbps over it (which is amazing for 5G). My issue is that passthrough mode (disabling the double-nat) was slow. In the latest update it doesn't work altogether.
- What I noticed, when you reset the router to factory settings, and directly turn on IP passthrough without changing any other settings, IP passthrough could work, if it doesn’t keep restarting the router till it works.
It worked for me when I was using the battery without connecting the router to any other device through ethernet or wifi. However, if the router restarts, it could go back to disconnected and you have to keep restarting again.
This is not practical at all and not even usable, there should be a software update to fix the issue to be able to use the feature as it supposed to be