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virtudude
Aspirant
Nov 16, 2022

Internet access from wired clients being throttled on SXR80

I have a SXR80 along with the satellite and I was previously had all of my wired devices plugged directly into the ethernet ports on the satellite. I had no problem getting my full broadband speed (1...
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DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 22, 2022

virtudude,

 

Welcome to the community! 🙂

 

I recently swapped the router and the satellite so now those same devices are plugged directly into the router.

 

Is the SXR80 configured as Router Mode and its directly hardwired to the router?  If yes, then you have a Double NAT scenario.  To learn about Double NAT, kindly access the article below:

 

What is double NAT and why is it bad?

 

 

Regards,

 

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

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    virtudude
    Aspirant
    Nov 22, 2022

    Thanks for the reply DaneA. The satellite is still wireless. I just physically swapped the locations of the router and satellite. I didn't change their configurations at all.

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