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XR500 WiFi not broadcasting, slowish Ethernet speed
I have gigabit internet through Xfinity in Central Florida. The WiFi was set up and working well enough. It stopped broadcasting in the middle of the night and disconnected from all of my connected d...
Both the modem and the router have the most up to date firmware. Your suggestion for unplugging the modem for 30 seconds fixed the WiFi not broadcasting. As for the speed, I am not really worried about wireless speed. We have a lot of neighbors and most of the bands are full except 8 and 44. Changing to those bands makes the WiFi speeds acceptable for phone browsing and the like. We are still getting 200-600 mbps on speed test over Ethernet. I know that the equipment we have should be doing 900. All of the cables are fine all 4 computers are reporting similar numbers.
I called NetGear about this and the only idea they had for Ethernet was to contact the ISP.
I called NetGear about this and the only idea they had for Ethernet was to contact the ISP.
Check wired speeds directly with the PC connected behind the modem.
Disable QoS on the XR router and reboot and speed test with a wired PC.
The XR is capable of near 900Mbps WAN to LAN. I know my XR450 is.