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XR1000 slow ethernet speed
I recently “donated” my XR500 to my son (different household) and bought myself the XR1000. I have tried everything I have seen mentioned in other threads in here- even the Netgear speed guide, and ev...
- So you should be able to turn this off using the Nighthawk App on your phone in the settings, then reboot from the app, wait 2 minutes before accessing and see if the speeds are improved
Ok, so I finally got time to mess with it. When I checked my netgear app and Duma, both confirm I am running the .58 firmware.
I ran some more speed tests with and without QoS enabled and also with trying to disable a few settings like goodput and work at home, but those made little little to no difference. With QoS enabled I now get much lower numbers than I was before. I also had congestion control set to never, and no bandwidth allocations set.
Qos off: LAN: 219/33.8
5G: 341/34.2
QoS on: LAN: 94.4/33.7
5G: 69.9/32.8
I ran some more speed tests with and without QoS enabled and also with trying to disable a few settings like goodput and work at home, but those made little little to no difference. With QoS enabled I now get much lower numbers than I was before. I also had congestion control set to never, and no bandwidth allocations set.
Qos off: LAN: 219/33.8
5G: 341/34.2
QoS on: LAN: 94.4/33.7
5G: 69.9/32.8
If you run a Connection Benchmark on the XR1000 GUI, could you please post a screenshot of the results? This may give some indication as to whether the XR1000 is seeing full speeds from the modem.
Another thing you could try to help us narrow down the problem would be to put the XR1000 into AP mode, then connect to it via ethernet and re-test your speeds.
- This is my benchmark result. I put the router into AP mode and my ethernet result was 559.5 down and 33.6 up
- Also, as I went to log into the GUI my router dropped internet, so I rebooted it via the rear power switch. As it was coming back online I noticed my ethernet was back online before my wireless, so I went ahead and ran a Speedtest and the result was 815 down and 34 up. But once the router started broadcasting wifi I ran the test again and my ethernet download speed dropped down to 175
That's interesting, is this reproduceable by disabling the Wi-Fi radio in the settings? After doing this, re-test your speeds, that will tell us if it's definitely Wi-Fi causing the problem.
- Ok, well so far I have not been able to reproduce that result. But, I have also still been running the XR1000 in AP mode because that seems to deliver my best throughput so far. When I got that result the XR1000 was the only router I had running. In AP mode with my old Nighthawk R7000 as the main router, I’ve been getting 500’s and the occasional low 600’s both wired and wireless. However, now this morning I just noticed that the speedtest on my iphone is showing 15-20% packet loss. I went on my laptop and did command ping, and both routers shows 0% packet loss wirelessly to the laptop. If I turn off broadcasting on the XR1000, I no longer get packet loss on my phone… but my wifi speed is cut in half- which I’m guessing is because of the limitation of the R7000. Unfortunately I haven’t had as much time as I would like to work on this lately, but I do have this weekend free to dedicate to trying to figure this out. That being said, I also only have 10 days left to be able to exchange this router through Amazon
