FVS336G Firmware Version: 3.0.3-17

Upgrade the firmware, follow my procedure.

Thank you adir :-)

Can you link me to: "follow my procedure"

James.

WOW! best set aside some time for that one.

Thank you both of you :-)

....but.....

Can I risk doing this Live? :-)
As the unit is 300 miles away :-(

Can NOT do remotely

adit wrote:
Upgrade the firmware, follow my procedure.

Makes no difference doing it my way or your way except that I waste a lot more time doing it your way. FYI, followed your method to the T with two different FVS336G v2 and got the same low speeds that we saw upgrading the firmware the 'usual' way. The firmware IS the problem and each new upgrade slows the FVS336G down more each time.

Generally firmware upgrades doesn't take scientific way to get it done.
I agree that mostly firmware could be most issues since some of the spec like throughout be limited with hardware in itself

jmizoguchi wrote:
Generally firmware upgrades doesn't take scientific way to get it done. I agree that mostly firmware could be most issues since some of the spec like throughout be limited with hardware in itself

So why is the FVS336G v1 and v2 not preforming at the rated or close to (5% allowable overhead) the rated 60Mbps WAN to LAN specs?

The FVS336G v1 did back in January 2008 with the initial firmware release but hasn't since and each firmware update has only slowed it down more.

Clearly this is not the hardware's fault if it's spec'd WAN to LAN speed works with the first firmware. Not a lot of good that first firmware does with all the bugs that needed to be ironed out.

So why is Netgear still selling these FVS336G claiming that they'll do 60Mbps WAN to LAN when clearly it can't and hasn't for over three years?

Why don't they down rate them to 35Mbps in the specs?

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