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erock82's avatar
erock82
Guide
May 09, 2019

Armor slows internet speed drastically

HI, I just installed the Netgear Armor on my RBK50 router. I noticed the internet seemed to slow a lot. I ran on speed test on a few connected devices and got ~10Mbps consistently. I have a 150 Mb...
DexterJB's avatar
DexterJB
NETGEAR Moderator
May 14, 2019

Hi erock82, are you still experiencing the issue?

 

Dexter

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    erock82
    Guide
    May 15, 2019

    Hi DexterJB, 

    Yes, I am still having the extremely slow internet speeds.  Been a busy couple of days hopefully I'll get to deactivating armor tonight and see if that is the problem.  Not sure how it isn't that this point...

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      DexterJB
      NETGEAR Moderator
      May 15, 2019

      Thanks for responding. Please keep us posted for us to provide a recommendation.

       

      Dexter

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        erock82
        Guide
        May 17, 2019

        Hi DexterJB,

         

        I disabled armor but still the same issue.  Maybe the firmware update caused the slow down?  Or maybe armor is still running in the background?  The interface isn't the best and I don't trust that armor has actually been disabled.