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Re: Slow upload speeds on router Speedtest
I installed my new 970 last Friday behind an ATT BGW320 Fiber Gateway (I have 5Gb internet service) and I’ve been experiencing the same issue. My download speeds will be 4500-4800MB, my uploads won’t ...
- FURRYe38 , After the previous firmware update (not the update you just announced in the last few days) and after that previous software update, I removed one of my two 970 Satellites (per your suggestion) leaving me with two WiFi 7 mesh nodes in a 2000 sg ft home, the Orbi App speed test results (we ultimately had already traced the issue to faulty upload speed READINGS, not an actual slow upload speed THROUGH-PUT) now correctly reflects 4700-5100Mbps upload speeds with my ATT 5 fiber-gig service.
I’ll try to find your previous post and mark my issue as resolved. Thanks for all your suggestions and assistance!
Coming back to this to see if this issue was resolved up to any point to now?
Roc1 wrote:
I installed my new 970 last Friday behind an ATT BGW320 Fiber Gateway (I have 5Gb internet service) and I’ve been experiencing the same issue. My download speeds will be 4500-4800MB, my uploads won’t get above 700 MBs. Netgear, what’s happening on this issue? There were 26 posts on this issue on 1-day in Feb of this year, and then nothing?!?!
- FURRYe38 , After the previous firmware update (not the update you just announced in the last few days) and after that previous software update, I removed one of my two 970 Satellites (per your suggestion) leaving me with two WiFi 7 mesh nodes in a 2000 sg ft home, the Orbi App speed test results (we ultimately had already traced the issue to faulty upload speed READINGS, not an actual slow upload speed THROUGH-PUT) now correctly reflects 4700-5100Mbps upload speeds with my ATT 5 fiber-gig service.
I’ll try to find your previous post and mark my issue as resolved. Thanks for all your suggestions and assistance!Is there a specific FW version?
- V9.12.4.16, that was released somewhere around 11/20/2024. I upgraded the remaining RBE970/971 firmware shortly after it was released, and I also disconnected one of the 970 Satellites (I now have 1-971 and 1-970 in my 2000 Sq Ft mesh network).
I think the updated firmware corrected the erroneously slow upload speeds shown in the Orbi App, and removing one satellite eliminated the 5/6Ghz WiFi channel interference that corrected my mesh node “dropped” hand-off issues and the WiFi to 5G+ cellular flip issue.