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XR500 slow wired and wifi speeds
I've had this XR500 gaming router for around 3 years now. Wired connection and wifi would pull around 450+ download speeds no problem. Just last week I started running into an issue. My wired speed b...
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dala314 wrote:
I've had this XR500 gaming router for around 3 years now. Wired connection and wifi would pull around 450+ download speeds no problem. Just last week I started running into an issue. My wired speed become 50 and my wifi speed became 80. I haven't touched the settings at all since I first bought the router and set it up. I did a factory reset, turned off QOS and still nothing changed. I hard wired my computer directly to the modem and got speeds of 450 again so I eliminated the modem as the culprit. I don't know if the router is just old and I need to replace it or maybe there is something else I can try.