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MR90 - Slow WiFi Speeds
I have an MR90 Mesh system in place. One unit is hard wired back to the router, with two our satellites wirelessly connected. Have 1GIG speed from ISP. System was working great with speeds, both wired and wirelessly getting close to 1GIG. However, in the last month, my WiFi speeds have been cut more than in half, sometimes as slow as 100megs-ish. Wired is fine, still getting close to 1GIG. I noticed that my system has a firmware version of 1.0.2.42. When going out to the website I noticed that the latest version available 1.0.2.38. Somehow this router has a newer firmware than is available on the website. I called support and didn't get any help. My theory is: 1) units received an incorrect firmware or 2) .42 was out there, and was pulled from Netgear due to technical error... can anyone shed some light on this?
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A couple things.
- you don't say what band you're testing on. For 2.4ghz, 100mbps is pretty darned fast. Not so much for 5/6ghz. Its also important what device you're testing with
- you don't say if you're testing on a wired satellite, one of the wireless ones, the router, or even if the wireless satellites are daisy chained (will drops speeds and increase latency)
- You DO say what wired speeds you're getting. But you're not specific to if you tested the router, wired satellite, wireless satellites, etc. key details.
What I'd recommend. Start with a laptop with ethernet. Test each satellite and write down your speeds. Thats critical to know. If one satellite has a bad backhaul connection and for some reason most devices connect to it, they'll be slow. figure out how each is performing first.
Then troubleshoot wireless. Remember that different bands will have different speeds. 2.4ghz is slow. 5 and 6ghz are much faster but don't broadcast as far (especially the 6ghz)
And the wireless satellites will perform slower than the wired one because they don't have a dedicated backhaul. And if one of them is daisy chained (router---->satellite---->satellite), it'll be even slower still.
So a few things to check, details to iron out, and some troubleshooting to do
