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XR 700
I've had my nighthawk pro gaming xr700 router for about 5 months and ever since I got it and replaced my X10 router I have had nothing but lag during gameplay lag is so bad it's unbearable. Been exper...
The gateway is already set up in bridge mode so it is acting only as a modem I used to have a Netgear gateway had it set up in bridge mode also but it wasn't able to support my 1gig speeds. Don't know the exact model number of the gateway from Xfinity it is the new Xfi gateway and I had Xfinity set it up in bridge mode so I could use my router. So I do not have two Nat prolbems. I had bought the x10 router and it was working great but it was already a few years old so I figured I would upgrade to the nighthawk xr700 and ever since I have got this router I have been experiencing lag.
Ok, making sure about your modem configuration.
Are you getting wired speed test near 900Mbps? When I had this router, it was not getting anything near 900Mbps on the WAN to LAN tests...
- What is the actual ping to the game you're getting as shown by the Geo-Filter?
- When I test from the router I am getting around 900mbps down and 45mps up.I know it's not the Xfinity gateway because when I had the x10 router it worked just fine but I cannot find the model number on the gateway. I am 100% sure that the problem is the Netgear xr700 router.
- We'll find out the cause, could you let us know the average ping to the game you're getting as shown by the Geo-Filter please?
- Ping is 25-30
