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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...
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- I got my MR5200 EUS today. Immediately upgraded to ntgx55_10.29.10.00
In IP pass though my WAN port flaps up and down.
In router mode (double Nat) it behaves perfectly fine.
Seems there is an issue with ip passthrough.
I had it on my Edgerouter in failover mode, and it pings 8.8.8.8 for the upstream connectivity link. I noticed in IP passthrough it was constantly reachable/unreachable. Flapping. Double NAT it works fine- I’ve fixed my issue....
So apparently the “flapping” issue is an issue with EdgeRouters. I have an ER-X.
If the LTE WAN IP address is passed with a subnet of 255.255.255.255 then the edgerouter will have issues with IP Passthrough. There is a workaround, but Netgear kindly added an LTE Subnet Mask option on the MR5200.
I changed my MR5200 back to IP Passthrough and changed the LTE Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0, and boom, everything is working perfectly. Thank you Netgear for adding that option.
The 2 posts that gave me the answer to my problem:
https://community.ui.com/questions/Flaky-network-behaviour-Nighthawk-M1-IP-passthrough/2105499c-bb81-4afc-bc4a-e03a868e5be7?page=5
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/139948/netgear-4g-modem-on-wan-port-weird-ip-address-and-no-internet
Hopefully this will help someone in the future.
It didn’t really affect me as on EE in the UK is CGNAT, but didn’t want to double Nat as well just because it’s not an ideal thing. 5G speed is excellent.