FVS336G Firmware Version: 3.0.3-17

Daedalus01 wrote:

The original poster sounds like he has more of an issue of 90% degradation. I'm sure these routers are performing as best they can with the firmware they have ( not saying the firmware or hardware may not have a flaw or two or issues). Have you considered the factor of more link aggregation. even your ISPs equipment has a theoretical limit of the switching power it can perform at any given time. My office firewall has a white sheet stating that I will get a 5Gbps throughput. Do I fully ever expect to see it even if I had the service to run at that speed. Absolutely not. Distance, location, line quality, environment, firewall rules, port redirects all come in to effect on what kind of performance you can expect to see. To both posters, If you are running a Vanilla config, then I would try downgrading your firmware for testing if possible ( I know the OP is 300 miles away which makes it harder). I also suggest if you have a guaranteed SLA, that you contact your ISP to start troubleshooting the issue. On a 200Mb or even a 60Mb, I wouldn't be running a Netgear 336G. I run one at home on my 30Mb and I do have rules setup and the area has grown in the past two years and I consistently see 20Mb average. I'm running at 66% of what they sold me, but its to be expected. To JRPSupport, you are getting 3-6% and you may have to consider changing hardware /and or vendor. You could upgrade as Adit suggested, or downgrade and see if that has helped. You could enable WAN-LAN dropped packet logging to see if your firewall is dropping them for some reason. Hope this bit helped

I think you entirely missed the point of the 5% overhead rule of thumb in the industry for all those little 'rules' and 'noise'.

I had a 25Mbps connection and with the FVS336G v1 which I consistently scored 24.55 to 24.95 Mbps on speedtest.net with the latest firmware on the FVS336G. Blows your theory of everything out of the water.

Now we finally have 50Mbps service in the area and I don't see anything faster than 35Mbps with the FVS336G v1 or v2. Take the FVS336G v1 or v2 out and hook up directly to the port (Cat5e service to the office) and I see 79-91Mbps. No way you or anyone out there can claim that's acceptable 'overhead' on a router that claims to have a 60Mbps WAN/LAN speed. What petri dish environment would one ever get those claimed speeds at now?

I would expect to get around 57-58Mbps with a claimed 60Mbps WAN/LAN speed but that no longer happens with current Netgear firmware.

FYI, Netgear's claimed 900+Mbps SRX5308 doesn't even break 500Mbps in real world testing. How do you explain that MASSIVE overhead? Maybe Netgear is full of it, yeah?