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karloc
Aspirant
May 24, 2020

It's Sad but XR300 appear to be bad and slow :(

I have been running the XR300 since January and have been having no end of speed issues.   Firstly set up router (fixed ip address) and needed settings speed down dropped to 80ish Mb. After call to...
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Netduma-Fraser
NetDuma Partner
May 28, 2020
Are you using Smart Connect for WiFi? If so disable that and connect to 2.4 or 5GHz manually and see if it performs better then.
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karloc
Aspirant
May 28, 2020

Sorry, don't know what smart connect is (cant's find it in the ui) and also the problem with the router is it's wired speed so connecting via wifi seams strange, or am I missing something here?