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Datagg
Apr 05, 2016Star
C7000 Blinking lights
Hello. Just purchased this the other day. Getting great 330 down, around 40-50 up. Have cox ultimate. Those speed tests run on hardwired side. My concern is the wireless side. The first couple days w...
DarrenM
Apr 14, 2016Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Hello Datagg
Have you tried to adjust you wireless channels to see if you can improve your speeds? Also you may want to disable the WMM under Advanced- Advanced Setup- Wireless settings uncheck those boxes and see in that helps.
DarrenM
Datagg
Apr 14, 2016Star
Hello,
Yes i have tried. Signals especially 2.4GhZ is horrid. i sent a image in of a speedtest in my back bedroom where it got litteraly, 7MBps down and 1Mbps up. yet earlier it was 42Mbps and 16Mbps. Walk closer to the router, it will improve some, yet not by much. This house is 1,200 Square feet, single floor so its not like its far away. My speeds here asre 300MBps down and up to 50 up. Real world, wired side im seeing wired side 330Mbps down, 30Mbps up based on last speedtest done. yet wirelsssly, not even close to those numbers on both bands. Clients that previously worked without fail for yerars, now buffer and stop stating connection error. Its really bad. Line checks show all good, power shows all good. yet whats happening is real. You cant go from great clients, to the day after C7000 to bad withiout pointing fingers. i also told the techs, the firmware i beleive to be the issue. All of what i stated to you occured after a day or so when my ISP pushed out the .18 firmware. My brother is seerign the same behavior, great signals day 1 and then partly into 2 then .18 dropepd and signals went from good to horrid. No amount of channel surfing eleviates the situation. And of course i cant downgrade firmware as the ISP is incontrol of that in the combo unit.
anwyays, thats where i am at right now. Holding out for a firmware update, yet as time goes on with no clue of when that will happen and clients running really bad I dont know if i cant wait. if i bought the standalone Nighthawk I could control the firmware on my own, downgrade, upgrade at will. Unforunetly that is not what i can do with this unit.
Thanks.
- DataggApr 15, 2016Star
Wow reading up on the WMM settings lead me to see what the stand alone nighthawk can do compared to the c7000. Give priory to streaming services etc. Seeing this here http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23853 for the stand alone model , this combo box sure is crippled in comparison. i would of liked those settings to try to see if i can get my clients to respond better.. yet apparently it cant be done like the stand alone. i allready know this firmware is faulty per previous comments, yet now seeing this. i should have gotten the stand alone setup based on what i am seeing and experiencing. Why remove all those tweaking settings in the combo unit? - You pulled a 8 cylinder mustang engine out and replaced it with a 6 cylinder engine from mazda. Why?