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Tannman82
Nov 05, 2020Aspirant
R8000 circle enabled slow internet
I want to enable the circle app on the router to limit my kids internet usage. I can get everything working the problem is it take my 400mbps down to 100 on all devices wifi and land. I've seen other...
Christian_R
Nov 11, 2020NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello Tannman82,
Have you had a moment to enable Circle and if so, how is your WiFi performing?
Christian
optimistatheart
Nov 11, 2020Aspirant
I have the same issue...
R8000 Circle Performance issues in the last month (start of October 2020)
I am on a 50MB/s Fibre to the curb NBN plan here in Melbourne, Australia.
When I disable Circle I get 50MB/s download and 18MB/s upload.
With Circle enabled I get half that or even less. Sometimes even as low as 1MB download. A restart of the router helps a bit temporarily but then degrades quickly. Some sites don't load.
I have tried some of the solutions here community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/Dynamic-QoS-and-Parental-Controls-massively-...
Tried resetting the router and new firmware.
Tried disabling QOS WMM and Dynamic QOS but none of that is helping at the moment.
Suspecting the Circle servers that are filtering content are overloaded.
Switched back to standard opendns for now.