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XR300 Slow speeds (70 Mbs AverageTops)
Hi, This is a last ditch effort to restore my faith in this router. I purchased this in June, to upgrade the WiFi in the house and utilise some of the other features of the router, to turn a ...
Go to Settings and go to the Setup Wizard, follow that as far as the speed test, what does that give you for speeds?
Hi,
I dont seem to get offered a speedtest.
Step 1 - Asks if I want to auto configure, I select yes
Step 2 - Checks for an internet connection
Step 3 - Applies internet connection
Step 4 - Asks me to create Admin Settings
Step 5 - asks me to setup the WiFi
Step6 - Asks me to save my configuration details
Step 7 - Looks for updates
Step 8 - Tells me there are no new updates - Current Firmware V1.0.3.56, Current GUI V1.0.3.56_21.1.38.1
Step 9 - Loads Success Window
Clicking Next to this brings me to the main Dashboard.
If I go though again, but choose No, I want toconfigure myself I get the following
Step 2 - Connection Type (with Apply, Cancel and Test.
Test - Updates Settings
- After a minute, pops up the Netgear site, sayoing Connection Suceesfful
Apply - Moves to Step 3 after applying the settings, just applied when doing the test, that worked and brings me back to the same place.
However, out of curiosity, I have complicated the network a bit, and moved the router upstairs, to keep playing in a morbid curiosity, plugged the router into the Virgin Superhub, via 2 switches and left it in router mode, so acting as a secound router on the network.
I get the IP netmask of 10.0.0.0/24 which is to be expected, but on the PC I have plugged in to configure this, I get 215 MBs upstairs via these switches using speedtest.net.
This shows to me that the router is capable of the bandwidth
I am now moving the router back downstairs and testing with a simmular spec PC to see what results I get - I will update shortly
Best regards
Jimmy
Hi,
Looks like it is the number of devices...
I had the Router plugged in directly to the Virgin Superhub in Router mode, and on the subnet of 10.0.0.0/24 I was getting good results, plugged the network switch in that houses the rest of the house (9 physical devices, and a further 10 Virtual devices) it then dropped to 70 MBs again.
Put the Virgin super hub in Modem only mode, still 70 MBs
Took the network switch out, and back to 210 Mbs.Disconnected the upstairs / downstairs link (taking 5 physical / 2 Virtual) and got 150 MBs consistantly
If I didnt rely on the VMs downstairs for the automation, and job, I could shut them down and test the theory that it will bring the speeds back up, but everything seems to point to this.In all of the tests, I made sure QOS is off and it is, so I think I have found the limitation. I think the XR300 just doenst have the CPU to do what I need it to, which is a shame as the WiFi (which was the main reason for getting it, due to the Virgin one being crap) is excellent. Cant quite afford the XR500, so looks like Its a different brand for something a bit more grunty.
I've had to stop for tonight as the wife is wanting to watch Amazon now, so I've put it all back to normal with the Virgin Superhub being back in Router mode, and the netgear out of the mix.For everyone that says 70 MBs is enough, we are paying a premium for the 200MBs service, so would like to use this.
Best regards
Jimmy
- What were all those devices doing when they were connected, were they active and downloading, streaming etc or just connected with no traffic?
Hi,
There will have been minimal traffic, JSON between eachother, but motly thats within the VM to VM traffic, the Physicals will have been mostly idle.
The DCs will have responded to the network outage, and back in, and the DHCP server will be restoring DHCP leases to the devices that needed it, along with any DNS queries.
It will be very little traffic, and nothing that should be down/uploading.
Best regards
Jimmy
- If in AP mode it makes no difference in speed I think you'll definitely need to get a replacement as basically none of the features that could impact it will be running. Register the router here: http://support.netgear.com/ then make a ticket. If the retailer say you need permission from Netgear that seems a bit odd to me but try it.