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Nighthawk XR500 slow wifi speeds
My setup: Comcast GB internet> CM1000 > XR500>EX8000 So here’s my issue, when connected directly to Ethernet I’m pulling about 480Mbs down and 40 up. When connected to WiFi with QOS off I’m pulling...
Download a WiFi analyser to find the least congested channel and then change to that in settings, does that improve your speeds?
I have the same issue with my xr700. pretty much the worst wifi speeds I have gotten from any router. Its exactly the same as yours. May be this router isn't designed for wireless and all about the OS and gaming lol.
I just disabled MU-MIMO to see if that is the issue. Will test it out or its going right back. My GT AC5300 went bust on the 3rd band so I got this. But download speeds on in the same location are atleast 100mbps less and uload speeds are 120mbps less on 5ghz. I am on a gig connection but with that router in the same location I got about 150 download on 5ghz and about 170 upload. Not I am at best case 120 download and 60 upload.
But you are right I have been having the same issue as you on download. Randomly goes down to 20mbps and 2.4ghz randomly goes down to 5-10mbps. Hopefully its MU-MIMO.
I have MU-MIMO, QOS and goodput disabled to eliminate those being issue. So far I think the focus of this router is not wifi speeds, its basically the feature set. For that reason I might return it for something else.
- If you're encountering issues like that and you've ruled out QoS by disabling it then I would highly recommend contacting Netgears support as they're more specialised with their hardware/settings and so will hopefully be able to resolve it.