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RBR850 background Speedtest running?
Hi all, Been seeing some odd network behaviour relating to my RBK853 that I recently updated to V7.2.8.8_5.1.24 that I'm pretty sure I've tracked back to a background Speedtest that is running ev...
Posted the other day about this and it seemed to go away after a reboot, but, noticed today that it's run a speedtest in the background again. Coming back to it a couple of hours later and it's run another.
RBR850 background Speedtest running? | NETGEAR Communities
[2026-10-03 13:14:12.377] [info] HTTP request (effective url: https://config.speedtest.net/v1/embed/...
[2026-10-03 15:14:47.105] [info] HTTP request (effective url: https://config.speedtest.net/v1/embed..
Any ideas why? Is this intended behaviour now? Surely for anyone on a metered internet connection this would be a bad thing to not have the option of saying, no, I don't want my router unilaterally running a speedtest that uses 2GB of data without my say-so?
I can probably just block the traffic but I don't think I should have to.
RBK853 all nodes on V7.2.8.8_5.1.24
Since the AX series seems to be EoL, we'll probably not see any changes in this regard. So something you'll just need to block if it's bothering you.
