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XR500 Wifi Slows to a crawl
Hey everyone,
I have been banging my head against the wall the last few days. I have been having a issue with my XR500 that I have had for awhile now. I cannot seem to keep my wifi speeds stable. Temp fixes are to disconnect my phone from the wifi and reconnect it to start getting it to work for 20ish min.
2 nights ago I went ahead and reset my router completely and set it up from scratch. I did a channel scan to make sure I am not over lapping anyone (I am now the only one on the specific channel). Yesterday I was getting about 500-600Mbps and thought it was solved but I awoke this morning to it going back down to under a 1Mbps. I have toggled QoS off and on, no devices are in Geo-Filter, No DMZ host and UPNP is turned on.
Please help!
edit: forgot to add
I have Gigibit Fios without a router so I dont have to worry about their device having wifi turned on. all wired devices do not seem to have a issue.
Firmware version XR500 V2.3.2.56
Great News! I rolled back the firmware, replaced the power cord because it randomly went into a boot loop on .32, Moved the router in a Upstairs closet on the other side of the floor... everything has held stable. I even updated the firmware to the current version Friday night. Everything has held strong in that time. I'm saying I was either getting really bad interference where it was at or the power cable was failing and wasn't providing enough power.
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What channels are you using? Auto? Try setting manual channel 1, 6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz and any unused channel on 5Ghz.
Any Wifi Neighbors near by? If so, how many?Try enabling Beamforming and MIMO(MIMO may or maynot be needed) and WMM. Set 20/40Mhz Coexistence to 40Mhz only.
Is Smart connect enabled or disabled?
Hey thanks for the reply. I have done a channel scan and verified that channel 8 was empty on 2.4Ghz so I'm using that, 136 on 5Ghz. I live in a townhome complex so i have alot of people near by. I can see 40 devices when I did my Channel scan.
Beamforming was on by default and i toggled the 20/40 Coexistence with no success.
Smart connect is on currently.
- Just to confirm your disabled QoS completely from the Anti-Bufferbloat 3 line menu and still suffering from slow speeds? What speeds do you get when you're using a wired connection? Disable smart connect and connect to 5GHz manually, are the speeds still slower?
